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title: עִיר — Ir · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עִיר (5893), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ir. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עִיר

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«עִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ir** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5893 · **BDB:** עִיר⁴

### Glosses

of.Ir (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5893/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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