עִיר
ʻîyr · eer
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
Lexicon
Derivation: or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 (עוּר)
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the hand that works › the head, the highest
To see and know of the hand that works of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עִיר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
1090 occurrences · 1090 OT · 0 NT · 281 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- cities125 · 18%
- of the city110 · 16%
- the city84 · 12%
- city47 · 7%
- in the city46 · 7%
- into the city30 · 4%
- the cities28 · 4%
- in the cities25 · 4%
- and the city19 · 3%
- this city17 · 2%
- out of the city17 · 2%
- of his city16 · 2%
- these cities12 · 2%
- to the city12 · 2%
- a city12 · 2%
- and the cities11 · 2%
- of the cities11 · 2%
- all the cities10 · 1%
- and in the cities10 · 1%
- from the city10 · 1%
- in their cities9 · 1%
- of that city9 · 1%
- and all the cities8 · 1%
- against the city8 · 1%
- unto the city8 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.