Iri — the meaning of the Hebrew name עִירִי
עִירִי
Iri means urbane.
Built from
עִיר ʻîyr — a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) open in the lexicon ›
Strong's definition
from H5892; urbane; Iri, an Israelite.
First appearance
1Chr 7:7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
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