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Villager

פְּרָזוֹןStrong’s H6520

perazon (pe-ra-zon)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Perazon is the Hebrew word usually translated “rural people” and “rural people his”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.”
Judges 5:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Rural population, rustics, rural people, people of unwalled villagesmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
  • rural people 1
  • rural people his 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Judges 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

פְּרָזוֹן perazon · villager

1) rural population, rustics, rural people, people of unwalled villages 1a) meaning uncertain

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “villager” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

VIL'LAGER, noun

An inhabitant of a village.

    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.