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2 Kings 3:25
“And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir–haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5892 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
- Derivation
- or (in the plural) עָר; or עָיַר; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 (עוּר)
- KJV renderings
- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הֶ — particle (definite article)
- עָרִ֣ים — common noun, feminine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 1,095 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:17Genesis 4:17Genesis 10:11Genesis 10:12Genesis 11:4
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עִיר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.