Genesis 4:17
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.
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Revelation 22:19
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
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עִיר
ʻîyr · eer
655 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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 4:17Strong's last: Zechariah 14:2
Open full H5892 profile →πόλις
pólis · pol'-is
145 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 2:23Strong's last: Revelation 22:19
Open full G4172 profile →קִרְיָה
qiryâh · kir-yaw'
31 times translated as this KJV form31 total Strong's occurrences
a city
Strong's KJV usage: city.
Strong's first: Numbers 21:28Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:17
Open full H7151 profile →קִרְיָא
qiryâʼ · keer-yaw'
8 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: city.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 4:12Strong's last: Ezra 4:21
Open full H7149 profile →קֶרֶת
qereth · keh'-reth
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a city
Strong's KJV usage: city.
Strong's first: Job 29:7Strong's last: Proverbs 11:11
Open full H7176 profile →πολιτάρχης
politárchēs · pol-it-ar'-khace
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a town-officer, i.e. magistrate
Strong's KJV usage: :--ruler of the city.
Strong's first: Acts 17:6Strong's last: Acts 17:8
Open full G4173 profile →מַדְהֵבָה
madhêbâh · mad-hay-baw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
goldmaking, i.e. exactness
Strong's KJV usage: golden city.
Strong's first: Isaiah 14:4Strong's last: Isaiah 14:4
Open full H4062 profile →עַי
ʻAy · ah'ee
1 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine
Strong's KJV usage: Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.
Strong's first: Joshua 8:12Strong's last: Joshua 8:12
Open full H5857 profile →שַׁעַר
shaʻar · shah'-ar
1 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: Ruth 3:11Strong's last: Ruth 3:11
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H5892
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
H5892
For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
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And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
H5892
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
H5892
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
H5892
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
H5892
In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
H5892
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
H5892
And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
H5892
And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
H5892
And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
H5892
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
H5892
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
H5892
And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
H5892
And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
H5892
And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
H5892
All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
H5892
And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
H5892
Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
H5892
And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
H5892
And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
H5892
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
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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