פְּרָזִי
pᵉrâzîy · H6521 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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unwalled towns or villages
Population centers without fortifications and therefore hard to defend, possibly associated with living in security without fear of the enemy
ExamplesDeuteronomy 3:5 “All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many unwalled towns.
1 Samuel 6:18 and the gold mice, corresponding to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five governors, both of fortified cities and of country villages. The large stone on which they placed the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
Esther 9:19 Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a holiday for rejoicing and feasting and sending portions of food to one another.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְהוּדִיJudean 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כֹּפֶרransom, bribe 1
- עִירcity, town 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- כָּפָר kâphâr · H3723 · village
- The target lexeme and כָּפָר are both glossed ‘village,’ making them near-synonyms — two distinct Hebrew words for the same type of settlement.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Towns001003002011
- פְּרָזִי describes an unwalled village or its inhabitants, as of the unwalled towns whose great number of people and livestock requires no defensive wall in the vision of Zechariah 2:4, and the villagers governed by the law given for cities without walls in Leviticus 25:31.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6521. perazi מְּרָזִי noun [masculine] hamlet-dweller; — collective with article הַמּ…
מְּרָזִי noun [masculine] hamlet-dweller; — collective with article הַמּ ׳כֹּפֶר 1Sa 6:18 (opposed to מִבְצָר עִיר), הַמּ ׳עָרֵי Deu 3:5 (opposed to וגו חוֺמָה בְּצֻרֹת ׳עָרִים); plural הַמְּרָזִים Est 9:19 Qr (Kt הפרוזים).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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