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True Words Baptist Church — Revelation 21:5
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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S

עִיר

H5892 · ʻîyr · eer · Hebrew

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Strong’s definition

a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)

KJV usage

Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.

1,081mapped occurrences
931verses
5KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping

city 655cities 418town 4towns 3one 1

Strong’s is a useful concordance and lexical reference layer. It does not by itself determine the meaning of a word in every context and is not a substitute for the verse, passage, or full grammatical analysis. Hebrew / Aramaic XML data: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0).

Mapped occurrences

Genesis 4:17Mapped KJV word: city

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 4:17Mapped KJV word: city

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 10:11Mapped KJV word: city

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

Genesis 10:12Mapped KJV word: city

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

Genesis 11:4Mapped KJV word: city

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:5Mapped KJV word: city

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Genesis 11:8Mapped KJV word: city

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Genesis 13:12Mapped KJV word: cities

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Genesis 18:24Mapped KJV word: city

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Genesis 18:26Mapped KJV word: city

And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

Genesis 18:28Mapped KJV word: city

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

Genesis 19:4Mapped KJV word: city

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Genesis 19:12Mapped KJV word: city

And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

Genesis 19:14Mapped KJV word: city

And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

Genesis 19:15Mapped KJV word: city

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

Genesis 19:16Mapped KJV word: city

And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

Genesis 19:20Mapped KJV word: city

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

Genesis 19:21Mapped KJV word: city

And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

Genesis 19:22Mapped KJV word: city

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Genesis 19:25Mapped KJV word: cities

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

Genesis 19:25Mapped KJV word: cities

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

Genesis 19:29Mapped KJV word: cities

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

Genesis 19:29Mapped KJV word: cities

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

Genesis 23:10Mapped KJV word: city

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 23:18Mapped KJV word: city

Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

Genesis 24:10Mapped KJV word: city

And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24:11Mapped KJV word: city

And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

Genesis 24:13Mapped KJV word: city

Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

Genesis 26:33Mapped KJV word: city

And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

Genesis 28:19Mapped KJV word: city

And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

Genesis 33:18Mapped KJV word: city

And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.

Genesis 33:18Mapped KJV word: city

And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.

Genesis 34:20Mapped KJV word: city

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

Genesis 34:20Mapped KJV word: city

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

Genesis 34:24Mapped KJV word: city

And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

Genesis 34:24Mapped KJV word: city

And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

Genesis 34:25Mapped KJV word: city

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

Genesis 34:27Mapped KJV word: city

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 34:28Mapped KJV word: city

They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

Genesis 35:5Mapped KJV word: cities

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Genesis 36:32Mapped KJV word: city

And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

Genesis 36:35Mapped KJV word: city

And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

Genesis 36:39Mapped KJV word: city

And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

Genesis 41:35Mapped KJV word: cities

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Genesis 41:48Mapped KJV word: cities

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

Genesis 41:48Mapped KJV word: city

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

Genesis 44:4Mapped KJV word: city

And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

Genesis 44:13Mapped KJV word: city

Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

Genesis 47:21Mapped KJV word: cities

And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

Exodus 1:11Mapped KJV word: cities

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.