עִיר
ir
1. excitement, anguish
a. of terror
1. city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
a. city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
a. city, town
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Concordance 937 verses
- Judges 18:27 הָעִ֖יר
After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.
- Judges 18:28 הָעִ֖יר
There was no one to deliver them, because the city was far from Sidon and had no alliance with anyone; it was in a valley near Beth-rehob. And the Danites rebuilt the city and lived there.
- Judges 18:29 הָעִיר֙הָעִ֖יר
They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
- Judges 19:11 עִֽיר־
When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here.”
- Judges 19:12 עִ֣יר
But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
- Judges 19:15 הָעִ֔יר
They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.
- Judges 19:17 הָעִ֑יר
When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
- Judges 19:22 הָעִ֜יר
While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
- Judges 20:11 הָעִ֔יר
So all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.
- Judges 20:14 הֶעָרִ֖ים
And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.
- Judges 20:15 מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים
On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
- Judges 20:31 הָעִ֑יר
The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
- Judges 20:32 הָעִ֖יר
“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
- Judges 20:37 הָעִ֖יר
The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
- Judges 20:38 הָעִֽיר׃
The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
- Judges 20:40 הָעִ֖ירהָעִ֖יר
But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.
- Judges 20:42 מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים
So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
- Judges 20:48 מֵעִ֤ירהֶעָרִ֥ים
And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
- Judges 21:23 הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים
The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
- Ruth 1:19 הָעִיר֙
So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
- Ruth 2:18 הָעִ֔יר
She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.
- Ruth 3:15 הָעִֽיר׃
And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl. Then he went into the city.
- Ruth 4:2 הָעִ֖יר
Then Boaz took ten of the elders of the city and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.
- 1 Samuel 1:3 מֵֽעִירוֹ֙
Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 4:13 בָּעִ֔ירהָעִֽיר׃
When he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
- 1 Samuel 5:9 בָּעִיר֙הָעִ֔יר
But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
- 1 Samuel 5:11 הָעִ֔יר
Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.
- 1 Samuel 5:12 הָעִ֖יר
Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
- 1 Samuel 6:18 עָרֵ֤ימֵעִ֣יר
The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers—the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.
- 1 Samuel 7:14 הֶעָרִ֡ים
The cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.
- 1 Samuel 8:22 לְעִירֽוֹ׃פ
“Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”
- 1 Samuel 9:6 בָּעִ֣יר
“Look,” said the servant, “in this city there is a man of God who is highly respected; everything he says surely comes to pass. Let us go there now. Perhaps he will tell us which way to go.”
- 1 Samuel 9:10 הָעִ֔יר
“Good,” said Saul to his servant. “Come, let us go.” So they set out for the city where the man of God was.
- 1 Samuel 9:11 הָעִ֔יר
And as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”
- 1 Samuel 9:12 לָעִ֔יר
“Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place.
- 1 Samuel 9:13 הָעִ֣יר
As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”
- 1 Samuel 9:14 הָעִ֑ירהָעִ֔יר
So Saul and his servant went up toward the city, and as they were entering it, there was Samuel coming toward them on his way up to the high place.
- 1 Samuel 9:25 הָעִ֑יר
And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
- 1 Samuel 9:27 הָעִ֔יר
As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us, but you stay for a while, and I will reveal to you the word of God.” So the servant went on.
- 1 Samuel 10:5 הָעִ֗יר
After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
- 1 Samuel 15:5 עִ֣יר
Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.
- 1 Samuel 16:4 הָעִיר֙
So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
- 1 Samuel 18:6 עָרֵ֤י
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
- 1 Samuel 20:6 עִיר֔וֹ
If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
- 1 Samuel 20:29 בָּעִ֗יר
saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he did not come to the king’s table.”
- 1 Samuel 20:40 הָעִֽיר׃
Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”
- 1 Samuel 20:42 הָעִֽיר׃
And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.
- 1 Samuel 22:19 עִיר־
He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
- 1 Samuel 23:7 בְּעִ֖יר
When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
- 1 Samuel 23:10 לָעִ֖יר
And David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.