Pasture
מִגְרָשׁStrong’s H4054migrash (mig-rash)
Appears in 69 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Migrash is the Hebrew word usually translated “pasture lands its”, “pasture lands their” and “pasture land of”. It appears in 69 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.”
Meaning
- Common, common land, open land, suburb
How it's translated
- pasture lands its 94
- and pasture lands their 7
- pasture lands their 6
- pasture land of 2
- pasture lands of 2
- open land 2
- and pasture land 1
- and pasture lands of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 33
- 1 Chronicles 23
- Numbers 5
- Ezekiel 5
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Leviticus 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 35:2Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.
- Numbers 35:3And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
- Numbers 35:4And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.
- Numbers 35:5And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
- Numbers 35:7So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
- Joshua 14:4For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
All 69 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מִגְרָשׁ migrash · pasture
common, common land, open land, suburb
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pasture” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ASTURE, noun
[Latin pasco, pastum, to feed.]
- Grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
- Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food or cattle.
- Human culture; education. [Not used.]
All definitions and other forms of “pasture”
P'ASTURE, verb transitive
To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.
P'ASTURE, verb intransitive
To graze; to take food by eating grass from the ground.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.