DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Cities

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

448exact KJV occurrences 429Old Testament 19New Testament 36books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 444occurrence-specific Strong's links

FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 13:12

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

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 16:19

And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

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HEAVIEST BOOK

Joshua

91 occurrences in 83 verses.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where cities appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 97 verses Exodus 11 verses Leviticus 76 verses Numbers 3625 verses Deuteronomy 2825 verses Joshua 9183 verses Judges 99 verses 1 Samuel 75 verses 2 Samuel 77 verses 1 Kings 1513 verses 2 Kings 1513 verses 1 Chronicles 2422 verses 2 Chronicles 4842 verses Ezra 54 verses Nehemiah 108 verses Esther 11 verses Job 11 verses Psalms 22 verses Isaiah 1616 verses Jeremiah 5951 verses Lamentations 11 verses Ezekiel 1916 verses Daniel 11 verses Hosea 43 verses Amos 33 verses Obadiah 11 verses Micah 33 verses Zephaniah 22 verses Zechariah 44 verses Matthew 55 verses Mark 22 verses Luke 44 verses Acts 55 verses 2 Peter 11 verses Jude 11 verses Revelation 11 verses

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH5892

עִיר

ʻîyr · eer

418 times translated as this KJV form1,081 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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

Strong's KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.

Other KJV renderings

city 655 town 4 towns 3 one 1

Strong's first: Genesis 13:12Strong's last: Zechariah 8:20

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GreekG4172

πόλις

pólis · pol'-is

19 times translated as this KJV form167 total Strong's occurrences

a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size)

Strong's KJV usage: :--city.

Other KJV renderings

city 136 the city 6 for 2 of the city 2 A city 1 the cities 1 the 1

Strong's first: Matthew 9:35Strong's last: Revelation 16:19

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HebrewH6145

עָר

ʻâr · awr

4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a foe (as watchful for mischief)

Strong's KJV usage: enemy.

Other KJV renderings

enemy 1 enemies 1

Strong's first: Psalms 9:6Strong's last: Micah 5:14

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HebrewH8179

שַׁעַר

shaʻar · shah'-ar

2 times translated as this KJV form371 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an opening, i.e. door or gate

Strong's KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (× -er).

Other KJV renderings

gate 252 gates 112 door 1 city 1 porters 1 port 1 doors 1

Strong's first: 1 Kings 8:37Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 6:28

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AramaicH7149

קִרְיָא

qiryâʼ · keer-yaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

Strong's KJV usage: city.

Other KJV renderings

city 8

Strong's first: Ezra 4:10Strong's last: Ezra 4:10

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2 Peter 2:6

G4172

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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city

CITY, noun

1. In a general sense, a large town; a large number of houses and inhabitants, established in one place.

2. In a more appropriate sense, a corporate town; a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by particular officers, as a mayor and aldermen. This is the sense of the word in the United States. In Great Britain, a city is said to be a town corporate that has a bishop and a cathedral church; but this is not always the fact.

3. The collective body of citizens, or the inhabitants of a city; as when we say, the city voted to establish a market, and the city repealed the vote.

CITY, adjective Pertaining to a city; as city wives; a city feast; city manners.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.

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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.