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# עִיר

Biblical Hebrew

**city** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

city [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִיר: agitation Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] agitation;—of terror, ע׳ וּבֶהָלוֹת Je 15:8; of rage (si vera l.), לֹא אָבוֹא בְּעִיר Ho 11:9, but St proposes לְבָעֵר cf. We Oort Now GASm.—בָּעִיר ψ 73:20 v. עור Hiph.—ii, iii. עִיר v. p. 746 infr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (27 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: anguish (1); rage (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 15:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.15.8/#tree)

עָֽצְמוּ־לִ֤י אַלְמְנֹתָו֙מֵח֣וֹל יַמִּ֔ים הֵבֵ֨אתִי לָהֶ֥ם עַל־אֵ֛ם בָּח֖וּר שֹׁדֵ֣ד בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם הִפַּ֤לְתִּי עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ פִּתְאֹ֔ם עִ֖יר וּבֶהָלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* they.are.numerous to me widows its more than.\[the\].sand of.\[the\].seas I.have.brought to them on a.mother of.a.young.man a.destroyer at (the) noon(s) I.have.made.fall on her suddenly anguish and sudden.terror

*JPS 1917:* Their widows are increased to Me above the sand of the seas; I bring upon them, against the mother, a chosen one, even a spoiler at noonday; I cause anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

[Hosea 11:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.11.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.11.9/#tree)

לֹ֤א אֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ חֲר֣וֹן אַפִּ֔י לֹ֥א אָשׁ֖וּב לְשַׁחֵ֣ת אֶפְרָ֑יִם כִּ֣י אֵ֤ל אָֽנֹכִי֙ וְלֹא־אִ֔ישׁ בְּקִרְבְּךָ֣ קָד֔וֹשׁ וְלֹ֥א אָב֖וֹא בְּעִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* not I.will.carry.out the.burning my.anger my not I.will.repeat to destroy Ephraim (dm) \[am\].God I and not a.human in midst your \[the\].holy.\[one\] and not I.will.come in rage

*JPS 1917:* I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not come in fury.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e8/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).