Original Language Studio
Numbers 35:4
“And 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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מִגְרָשׁmigrâsh · mig-rawsh'
H4054 · Hebrew
H4054 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven from pasture); hence, the area around abuilding, or the margin of the sea
- Derivation
- also (in plural) feminine (Ezekiel 27:28) מִגְרָשָׁה; from H1644 (גָּרַשׁ);
- KJV renderings
- cast out, suburb.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- מִגְרְשֵׁי֙ — common noun, masculine, plural, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 115 times in the Hebrew Bible.Leviticus 25:34Numbers 35:2Numbers 35:3Numbers 35:5Numbers 35:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מִגְרָשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.