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H5892Bעִירir
cityPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
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They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
עִ֥יר 'ir “a city of”
Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.
עִ֥יר 'ir “a city of”
And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;
עִ֣יר 'ir “a city of”
Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?
עִ֣יר 'ir “a city of”
O Jerusalem, you are like a town which is well joined together;
כְּ֝עִ֗יר (עִ֗יר) 'Ir “a city”
If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
עִ֝֗יר 'Ir “a city”
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
בָּעִ֗יר (עִ֗יר) 'Ir “city”
He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.
עִֽיר׃ 'Ir “a city”
A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.
עִ֣יר 'ir “a city of”
He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.
עִ֣יר 'ir “a city”
Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.
בָּעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”
And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
בָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”
There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.
עִ֣יר 'ir “a city”
Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.
הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”
The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.
עִֽיר׃ 'Ir “a city”
I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.
בָעִ֗יר (עִ֗יר) 'Ir “city”
The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?
בָּעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”
The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
בָּעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”
Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
עָרֵיכֶ֖ם (עָרֵי) 'a.rei. “cities”
And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.
כְּעִ֥יר (עִ֥יר) 'Ir “a city”
And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.
עִ֣יר 'ir “[the] city of”
Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,
עָרִ֜ים 'a.Rim “cities”
Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
וְעָרָ֣יו (עָרָ֣י) 'a.Ra “cities”
Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.
עָרִֽים׃ 'a.Rim “cities”
Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.
עִ֔יר 'Ir “O city”