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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Cities
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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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97 verses
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11 verses
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76 verses
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3625 verses
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9183 verses
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99 verses
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75 verses
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77 verses
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1513 verses
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54 verses
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108 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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43 verses
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33 verses
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22 verses
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44 verses
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55 verses
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Luke
44 verses
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55 verses
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11 verses
Jude
11 verses
Revelation
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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עִיר
ʻîyr · eer
418 times translated as this KJV form1,081 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Strong's first: Genesis 13:12Strong's last: Zechariah 8:20
Open full H5892 profile →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
Strong's first: Matthew 9:35Strong's last: Revelation 16:19
Open full G4172 profile →עָר
ʻâr · awr
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a foe (as watchful for mischief)
Strong's KJV usage: enemy.
Strong's first: Psalms 9:6Strong's last: Micah 5:14
Open full H6145 profile →שַׁעַר
shaʻar · shah'-ar
2 times translated as this KJV form371 total Strong's occurrences
an opening, i.e. door or gate
Strong's KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (× -er).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 8:37Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 6:28
Open full H8179 profile →קִרְיָא
qiryâʼ · keer-yaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: city.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 4:10Strong's last: Ezra 4:10
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H5892
Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
H5892
And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
H5892
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
H5892
Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
H5892
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
no direct Strong's tag
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
H5892
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
no direct Strong's tag
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
H5892
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
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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