Words the Bible translates as town
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.
- kōmēκώμηa village: a small rural settlement, smaller and less protected than a walled city
- 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
- qeretקֶרֶתtownnot studied yet
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