fortified height
(
cf.
3
)
Prä
ZMG xxvi (1872), 437
,
ערן
,
עהרן
city
CIS
iv. pp. 94, 95, 173
)
;—
ע׳
abs.
Gn 4:17
+,
cstr.
24:10
+;
הָעִ˜ירָה
1 K 14:12
+
7 times;
sf.
עִירִי
2 S 19:38
+
2 times, etc.;
pl.
עָרִים
Is 6:11
+,
עֲיָרִים
Ju 10:4
(textual error, or word-play,
cf.
GF
M);
cstr.
עָרֵי
Gn 19:29
+;
sf.
עָרַי
Zc 1:1
7,
עָרֵיכֶם
Is 1:7
+
, etc.;—
1.
city, town
, abode of men
Gn 4:17
(
J
) and often;
גְּדֹלָה
10:12
(
J
),
+
, or
קְטַנָּה
Ec 9:14
(
cf.
Gn 19:2
0); especially
a.
fortified:
עָרִים בְּצֻרֹות
2 S 20:6
+, etc.,
v.
בָּצַר
,
בִבְצָר
;
עִיר מִבְצַר־צֹר
Jos 19:29
(
P
)
fortified city
(
of
)
Tyre
,
ע׳ מָצֹור
ψ 31:22
+, etc.,
v.
מָצוֹר
,
מְצוּרָה
sub
צוּר
(
Mi 7:12
v.
מָצוֹר
p. 596 a);
ע׳ עָז־לָנוּ
Is 26:
1,
עָרֵי מָעוּזֹּו
17:
9;
ע׳ דְּלָתַים וּבְרִיחַ
1 S 23:
7;
ע׳ חֹומָה
Lv 25:2
9,
cf.
v
30
(
P
),
1 K 4:13
; on
Ho 10:14
v.
I
.
עַם
2 b
(
1 S 9:14
read
הַשַּׁעַר
Ö
We Dr
al.
).
b.
opp.
כֹּפֶר הַפְּרָוִי
1 S 6:1
8,
עָרֵי הַפּ׳
Dt 3:
5,
ע׳ הַפְּרָזֹות
Est 9:1
9; disting. from dependencies
חֲצֵרִים
Jos 13:23
+
often
P
c.
עָרֶיהָ
are dependent towns
Jos 13:17
(
P
),
Je 19:15
.
•
d.
עָרֵי הַמַּמְלָכָה
Jos 10:2
(JE)
royal cities
(i. e. with a king,
cf.
TelAm.
al šarri;
), so
sg.
1 S 27:
5,
opp.
עָרֵי הַשָּׂדֶה
v
5
rural towns;
ע׳ הַמְּלוּכָה
2 S 12:26
(but read
ע׳ הַמַּיִם
We Bu Kit
Löhr
HPS
,
v.
2
infr
.).
•
e.
עָרֵי מִסְכְּנֹות
Ex 1:11
storage-cities
,
cf. confer , compare. Prä F. Prätorius.
ZMG
Zeitschrift d. deutsch. Morgenländ. Gesellschaft.
CIS
Corpus Inscript. Semiticarum.
abs.
absolute.
+
plus, denotes often that other passages, etc., might be cited. So also where the forms of verbs, nouns, and adjectives are illustrated by citations, near the beginning of articles; while etc. in such connexions commonly indicates that other forms of the word occur, which it has not been thought worth while to cite.
cstr.
construct.
sf.
suffix,
or
with suffix.
pl.
plural.
GFM
G. F. Moore.
J
Jehovist.
v.
vide
, see.
P
Priests Code or Narrative.
v
verse.
ÖÑ
Greek version of the LXX.
We
J. Wellhousen.
Dr
S. R. Driver.
al.
et aliter
, and elsewhere; also
et alii
, and others.
opp.
opposite, as opposed to, or contrasted with. prefixed, or added, or both, indicates All passages cited.
TelAm.
TA,
q.v.
.
sg.
singular.
Bu K. Budde.