Hebrew word · H5893
עִיר
'ir
-Ir
Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.
What it means
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.12;
father of: Shuppim (H8206), Huppim (H2650), Maacah (H4601M)
§ Ir = "belonging to a city"
son of Bela and father of Huppim and Shuppim
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
Genesis · 1
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Genesis 10:11 עִ֖יר Ir
From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
1 Chronicles · 1
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1 Chronicles 7:12 עִ֔יר Ir
The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir, and the Hushites were descendants of Aher.
Here: A personal name. As a common noun the same word means 'city', but here it is almost certainly a short form of Iri, the son of Bela named in 7:7. That would make the Shuppim and Huppim clans a branch of Bela's line.
Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.