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Excitement

עִירStrong’s H5892

ir

Appears in 932 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ir is the Hebrew word usually translated “city”, “cities of” and “cities”. It appears in 932 verses of the Old Testament.

“O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.”
Daniel 9:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. Excitement, anguishof terror
  2. City, town (a place of waking, guarded)city, town
  3. Ir-nahash - a city mentioned only at 1Ch.4.12
How it's translated
  • the city 308
  • cities of 94
  • cities 81
  • the cities 68
  • city of 54
  • in the city 52
  • a city 37
  • in cities of 33

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Joshua 128
  • Jeremiah 118
  • 2 Chronicles 73
  • Ezekiel 54
  • 2 Kings 52
  • Deuteronomy 50

37 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 932 verses, by book
Exodus 3
1:119:299:33
Ecclesiastes 5
7:198:109:149:1510:15
Song of Solomon 3
3:23:35:7
Joel 1
2:9
Obadiah 1
1:20
Nahum 1
3:1
Habakkuk 1
2:12
Zephaniah 4
1:162:153:13:6
Hebrew dictionary

עִיר ir · excitement

1) excitement, anguish 1a) of terror

עִיר ir · city

1) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 1a) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 1a) city, town

נָחָשׁ nachash · (Ir)-nahash

Ir-nahash - a city mentioned only at 1Ch.4.12

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “excitement” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

EXCI'TEMENT, noun

The act of exciting; stimulation.

  1. The state of being roused into action, or of having increased action.
  2. Agitation; a state of being roused into action; as an excitement of the people.
  3. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.