H5892B–עִיר–ir

When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, Please come and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

עִֽיר־ 'ir- “[the] city of”

His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.

עִ֣יר 'ir “a city”

They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Where go you? and whence come you?

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man who came into your house, that we may know him.

הָעִ֜יר (עִ֜יר) 'Ir “city”

So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

הֶעָרִ֖ים (עָרִ֖ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

The liers-in-wait hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.

מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

מֵעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “a city of”הֶעָרִ֥ים (עָרִ֥ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and lived in them.

הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [ergänzt: the women] said, Is this Naomi?

הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”

She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it; and she held it; and he measured six [ergänzt: measures] of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you down here. They sat down.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Hosts in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

מֵֽעִירוֹ֙ (עִיר) 'i.R “city”

When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.

בָּעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand of Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: and he struck the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors broke out on them.

בָּעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”