Villager
פְּרָזִיStrong’s H6521perazi (pe-ra-zi)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Perazi is the Hebrew word usually translated “hamlet-dweller” and “rural villagers”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.”
Meaning
- Villager, rural dweller, hamlet-dweller
- (TWOT) open region
How it's translated
- the hamlet-dweller 2
- the rural villagers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Esther 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 6:18And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
פְּרָזִי perazi · villager
1) villager, rural dweller, hamlet-dweller 2) (TWOT) open region
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.