עִיר
ir · watcher
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H5894 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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ir (עִיר) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “watcher”.
(Aramaic): one who is awake, a heavenly being.
How to say it
ir
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A heavenly being who never sleeps, a holy messenger.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- watcher ×2
- watchers ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Daniel 4:13
I was looking in the visions of my head on my bed, and look, a watcher, and a holy one, was coming down from the heavens.
- Daniel 4:17
The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the request by the word of the holy ones, so that the living may know that Illaya rules over the kingdom of men, and to whomever he wishes he gives it, and the lowliest of men he sets up over it.’
- Daniel 4:23
And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’: