HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2699
חֲצֵרִים
cha.tse.rim — villages
§ Hazerim = "villages" settlements of Ishmaelites
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Villages
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1323
בַּת
bat — daughter
: daughter 1) daughter 1a) daughter, girl, adopted daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, granddaughters, female child, cousin 1a1) as polite address 1a2) as designation of women of a particular place 2) young women, women 1a3) as personification 1a4) daughter-villages 1a5) description of character Also means: bat (בַּת ": village" H1323H)
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חַוּוֹת יָעִיר
chau.vot ya.ir — Havvoth-jair
§ Havoth-jair = "villages of Jair" certain villages on the east of Jordan, in Gilead or Bashan, which were taken by Jair, the son of Manasseh, and called after his name; 60 or 23 or 30 cities in total
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5025
נֹ֫בַח
no.vach — Nobah
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.32.42 § Nobah = "barking" 1) a warrior of Manasseh who during the conquest of the territory on the east of the Jordan possessed himself of the town of Kenath and surrounding villages 2) a place in Gilead which comprised the towns of Kenath and its surrounding villages captured by 1 above and renamed after himself; area eventually regained its original identity
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6520
פְּרָזוֹן
pe.ra.zon — villager
1) rural population, rustics, rural people, people of unwalled villages 1a) meaning uncertain
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1579
גִּמְזוֹ
gim.zo — Gimzo
§ Gimzo = "fertile in sycamores" a town in Judah south of the road between Jerusalem and Joppa which with its dependant villages was captured by the Philistines in the reign of Ahaz
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4088
מַדְמֵנָה
mad.me.nah — Madmenah
§ Madmenah = "dunghill" one of the Benjamite villages north of Jerusalem
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(Judg. 5:7, 11). The Hebrew word thus rendered (perazon) means habitations in the open country, unwalled villages (Deut. 3:5; 1 Sam. 6:18). Others, however, following the LXX. and the Vulgate versions, render the word “rulers.”
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.