21 occurrences

'City' in the Bible

From Aroer, which [is] on the edge of the wadi of Arnon and the city that [was] in the wadi on up to Gilead, [there] was not a city that was inaccessible to us; Yahweh our God gave {everything} {to us}.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackArnonThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And we captured all [of] his towns at that time; [there] was not a city that we did not take from them.

Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesSixties

[He does this] lest the avenger of blood might pursue after the killer, because {he is hot with anger} and he overtakes him, because it is a long distance [to the city of refuge], and [so] {he kills him}, but {he did not deserve a death sentence}, because he [was] not hating him {before}.

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingNot HatingDeath Of A Family Member

then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and they shall give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsTownMan Avenging

"When you approach a city to fight against it, {you must offer it peace}.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackMaking Peace With EnemiesSurrender

Only the women and the little children and the domestic animals and all that shall be in the city, all of its spoil you may loot for yourselves, and you may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that Yahweh you God has given to you.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of WarRules About BootyFamily Conflict

Only the trees that you know {are not fruit trees} you may destroy and you may cut down, and you may build siege works against that city that is making war with you {until it falls}."

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

{And then} the nearest city to the slain one, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked with [in the field], that has not pulled a yoke,

Verse ConceptsTownYokesHeifersUnused

and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a {wadi that flows with water all year} and [that] has not been plowed and has not been sown; [then] {there they shall break the neck of the heifer in the wadi}.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterDislocatingUnused

And all of the elders of that city nearest to the slain person shall wash their hands over the heifer [with] the broken neck in the wadi.

Verse ConceptsDislocating

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his {town},

Verse ConceptsGatesComing To Gates

and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious; {he does not obey us}, [and] he is a glutton and a drunkard.'

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDishonouring ParentsChildren, UngratefulObstinate IndividualsAccused Of Drunkennessrebelliondrunkards

Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones and let him die; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all of Israel will hear, and they will fear.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSelf WillChildren, UngratefulFear Is DueInstructions About Stoning

then [in defense] the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and [together] they must bring out the [evidence of] the virginity of the young woman [to display it] to the elders of the city {at the city gate}.

Verse ConceptsTownComing To Gatesvirginity

and now look {he has accused her falsely}, saying, "I did not find {your daughter a virgin}," but here [is] [evidence of] the virginity of my daughter'; and they shall spread the cloth [out] {before} the elders of the city.

Verse ConceptsDistinctive Clothingaccusationsvirginity

Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him.

Verse ConceptsWhippingJudicial Punishment

and [then] they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel {by playing the harlot} [in] the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity

then you shall bring out {both of them} to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Verse ConceptsComing To GatesInstructions About Stoning

"You [shall] be cursed in the city, and [you shall] be cursed in the field.

Verse ConceptsThe CountrysideGod Cursing

and the Negev and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palms, [on] up to Zoar.

Verse ConceptsPalm Trees

Related Words

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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