עִיר

עִירII f. (b. h.; עוּר) (watch-tower, fort, town, city. B. Kam.80b הלוקח ע׳ בארץוכ׳ he who buys a township in Palestine, is bound by law to buy also the accesses to it on four sides. Snh.17b כל ע׳ שאין בה עשרהוכ׳ in a town in which there are not the following ten things (institutions), a scholar is not permitted to live. Snh.I, 6 וכמה יהא בע׳וכ׳ and how large must the population of a town be, to be fit as a seat for a Sanhedrin? Yoma 20b הָעִ׳ (Ms. M. רומי) the City of Rome; Pes.119a בָּעִ׳ (Ms. M. ברומי) in Rome; a. v. fr.Pl. עָרִים, עֲיָירוֹת. Tosef.Macc.III (II), 1; Macc.9b שלש ע׳ הבדילוכ׳ Moses set apart three towns (of refuge). Ib. II, 4, a. fr. עָרֵי מקלט, v. מִקְלָט. Meg.I, 1, sq.; a. fr.