Joshua 2:15
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
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Town
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John 11:30
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
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κώμη
kṓmē · ko'-may
8 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
a hamlet (as if laid down)
Strong's KJV usage: :--town, village.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 10:11Strong's last: John 11:30
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ʻîyr · eer
4 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.
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Strong's first: 1 Samuel 16:4Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:12
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qîyr · keer
1 times translated as this KJV form74 total Strong's occurrences
a wall (as built in a trench)
Strong's KJV usage: mason, side, town, × very, wall.
Strong's first: Joshua 2:15Strong's last: Joshua 2:15
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Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
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Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
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Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
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town
TOWN, noun
1. Originally, a walled or fortified place; a collection of houses inclosed with walls, hedges or pickets for safety. Rahab's house was on the town wall. Joshua 2:15.
A town that hath gates and bars. 1 Samuel 23:7.
2. Any collection of houses, larger than a village. In this use the word is very indefinite, and a town may consist of twenty houses, or of twenty thousand.
3. In England, any number of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
A town in modern times, is generally without walls, which is the circumstance that usually distinguishes it from a city.
In the United States, the circumstance that distinguishes a town from a city, is generally that a city is incorporated with special privileges, and a town is not. But a city is often called a town
4. The inhabitants of a town The town voted to send two representatives to the legislature, or they voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
5. In popular usage, in America, a township; the whole territory within certain limits.
6. In England, the court end of London.
7. The inhabitants of the metropolis.
8. The metropolis. The gentleman lives in town in winter; in summer he lives in the country. The same form of expression is used in regard to other populous towns.
TOWN'-CLERK, noun [town and clerk.] An officer who keeps the records of a town and enters all its official proceedings.
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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