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# עִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5893

**Ir** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5893/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִיר⁴: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5893/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in בְּנֵי ע׳ 1 Ch 7:12, text dub., v. Be Kau.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (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: of Ir (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.12/#tree)

וְשֻׁפִּ֤ם וְחֻפִּם֙ בְּנֵ֣י עִ֔יר חֻשִׁ֖ם בְּנֵ֥י אַחֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and Shuppim and Huppim \[were\].the.sons of.Ir Hushim \[were\].the.sons of.Aher

*JPS 1917:* Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the son of another.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5893/): 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).