Village
פְּרָזָהStrong’s H6519perazah (pe-ra-zah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Perazah is the Hebrew word usually translated “open regions” and “villages”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:”
Meaning
- Open region, hamlet, unwalled village, open country
How it's translated
- the open regions 1
- villages 1
- open regions 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Zechariah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 9:19Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
- Ezekiel 38:11And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
Hebrew dictionary
פְּרָזָה perazah · village
open region, hamlet, unwalled village, open country
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “village” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VIL'LAGE, noun
A small assemblage of houses, less than a town or city, and inhabited chiefly by farmers and other laboring people. In England, it is said that a village is distinguished from a town by the want of a market.
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.