52 occurrences

'City' in the Bible

That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

Verse ConceptsDead SeaCrossing Into The Promised LandRoses

And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

Verse ConceptsSix DaysOrder Of MarchFalling

And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalHornsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRamsSevenSeven PeopleSeven ThingsSeven TimesThe Ark Moved AroundTrumpets For BattleSeven TrumpetsFalling

And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsShoutingWallsBattle CriesThings Falling

And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsFallingMoving OnSpiritual Warfare

So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

Verse ConceptsCirclesThe Ark Moved AroundFalling

And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

Verse ConceptsSix DaysFalling

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

Verse ConceptsDawnRising EarlySeven TimesThe Seventh Day Of The WeekAt DaybreakThose Who Rose EarlyDay 7Falling

And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.

Verse ConceptsBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedHelpfulnessKillingSpiesPeople Hiding PeopleUnder The Ban

So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsInvasionsShouting For JoyConquestChantingNot Turning AsidePeople TumblingBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThings Fallingdrums

And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

Verse ConceptsSheepSwordsAnnihilationExterminationBoth Men And Animals Killedgenocide

And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeFireIronTreasureConflagrationsTreasuriesBurning Cities

And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsFirstbornFathers, Sin Of TheAdjurationGatesOaths, HumanProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtDeath Of The FirstbornThe Youngest ChildFoundations Of NationsCity GatesCursing The UngodlyRebuilding Named Citiesrebuilding

And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftWarfare, Nature OfResisting DiscouragementGradual Conquest Of The LandThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

Verse ConceptsCattle

And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

Verse ConceptsPeople Not Far Away

And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies In

(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

Verse ConceptsBringing People Out Of Other Places

Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

Verse ConceptsBurning Cities

And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.

And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Verse ConceptsFive ThousandWest Sides

And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

Verse ConceptsWest Sides

And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing The FutureThose Who Rose Early

And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

Verse ConceptsBringing People Out Of Other Places

And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesUnguarded

And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.

Verse ConceptsSpearsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

Verse ConceptsSpearsGroups RunningBurning Cities

And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesConflagrations

And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.

And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

Verse ConceptsThe Middle

Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

Verse ConceptsGallowsGatesHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSunsetsCairnsPeople Hung To DeathPlaces To This Day

That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessFearing Other People

There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.

Verse ConceptsAgreements, Legal

From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;

Verse ConceptsArnon

And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;

Verse ConceptsArnonRiver Arnon

And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.

And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.

Verse ConceptsSaltSix ThingsSourness

And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

Verse ConceptsWestern Borders

And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:

According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.

Verse ConceptsTownRebuilding Named Cities

And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Verse ConceptsGatesWaiting At Gates

And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home

And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.

But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,

Verse ConceptsMurder

For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,

And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.

Verse ConceptsTwo Cities

And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.

Verse ConceptsThree Cities

And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

Bible Theasaurus

Hamlet (2 instances)
Metropolis (1 instance)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
πόλις 
Polis 
Usage: 132

πολιτάρχης 
Politarches 
ruler of the city
Usage: 2

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