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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City
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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
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
H7151
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
H7151
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
H5892
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
H5892
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
H7151
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
H5892
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
H5892
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
H5892
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
H5892
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
H5892
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
H5892
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
H5892
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
H5892
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
H5892
For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
H5892
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
H5892
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
H5892
And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
H5892
A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
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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