Words the Bible translates as city
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- polisπόλιςa city: a walled, settled population center, and by extension the community that lives in it
- irעִירa settled place where people live together: the everyday word for a town of any size, marked off from open country and from lone farmsteads.
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- agitation: a rush of rage, panic, or anguish, in a rare word written with the same letters as the word for a town.
- sha'arשַׁעַרthe gate of a walled town or building: the controlled opening in the wall, and the public space there where the community's life was conducted
- qiryahקִרְיָהa town or city: a settled, inhabited place, named with an elevated, mostly poetic word
- qiryahקִרְיָהa city or town: a single walled settlement, the whole inhabited place rather than the region around it or the fort inside it
- irעִירIr: the second word of the Assyrian place name Rehoboth-Ir, which by itself is the everyday Hebrew word for a town.
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- Ir: a man of the tribe of Benjamin, named in Chronicles as the father of Shuppim and Huppim.
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