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Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

עִ֔יר 'Ir “a city”הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

הָעִ֥יר (עִ֥יר) 'Ir “city”

They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

עִ֗יר 'Ir “a city”

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

בְּעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are therein?

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

הָעִ֜יר (עִ֜יר) 'Ir “city”

The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

בָּעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

לָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

הָעִ֨יר (עִ֨יר) 'Ir “city”

He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

הֶעָרִ֣ים (עָרִ֣ים) 'a.Rim “cities”הֶעָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

עָרֵ֣י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

עִיר֖וֹ (עִיר֖) i.R “city”

to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

עִירֽוֹ׃ (עִירֽ) i.R “city”

The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

עִ֥יר 'ir “[the] city of”

He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

לָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”