ir is the Hebrew noun for a named or inhabited settlement that may be built, entered, defended, captured, or abandoned.

The supplied verses consistently use the term for a settlement or civic place: a location with inhabitants, buildings, gates or approaches, officials, and surrounding lands. It can be named, built, entered, defended, captured, plundered, or abandoned, in singular and plural references to such places.

1. Inhabited or named settlement · dominant

   Singular forms identify a place David built and restored in 1 Chronicles 11:8, while plural construct forms identify places the Israelites abandoned in 1 Chronicles 10:7. The same use covers a settlement entered or approached in 1 Kings 17:10 and a place captured in 1 Kings 16:18; in these clauses the APB renders the location as “city” or “cities.”

   1 Chronicles 11:81 Chronicles 10:71 Kings 17:101 Kings 16:181 Kings 20:301 Chronicles 27:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB commonly presents the term as “city” or “cities,” including places that are built, entered, captured, or abandoned. These renderings confirm the clauses' setting rather than establish a separate lexical distinction.