Strong's Lexicon

H4054

H4054 — מִגרָשׁ מִגרָשָׁה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmigrashnoun mascOccurrences: 115TWOT: 388c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H4054
Word:מִגרָשׁ מִגרָשָׁה
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from H1644
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:115
Transliteration:migrash
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:mig-rawsh' (also (in plural) feminine (Ezek. 27) n-m.
Meaning:1. a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven from pasture) 2. (hence) the area around a building, or the margin of the sea
KJV Renderings:cast out, suburb.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB1773

מִגְרָשׁ noun masculine Num 35:2 common, common-land, open land (perhaps originally pasture-land, as place of [cattle] driving) — absolute ׳ מ Ezek 45:2 + 2 t. + Ezek 48:15 (Co מגרשָׁהּ); construct מִגְרַשׁ Lev 25:34; 2Chr 31:19 (on מִגְרָשָׁהּ Ezek 36:5 compare גרשׁ); elsewhere plural, absolute מִגְרשׁוֺת Ezek 27:28 ( Baer); Co מרעשׁת assumed from רָעַשׁ, compare ᵐ5 ; construct מִגְרְשֵׁי Num 35:4 + 2 t.; suffix מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ Josh 21:13 (twice in verse) + 42 t.; מִגְרָשֶׁהָ Josh 21:11 + 46 t. in Josh 21 (generally ֑ or ֔ + but also ֖ Josh 21:21); מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶם Num 35:3 + 4 t.; מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶן Num 35:7 + 8 t. — common-land, usually plural, and usually as attached to a city or town, especially as surrounding Levitical cities Num 35:2; Num 35:3; Num 35:4; Num 35:5; Num 35:7; Josh 14:4; Josh 21:2 + 55 t. Josh 21 (all P ; in Manuscripts & old Vrss. are two verses Josh 21, between Josh 21:35 Josh 21:36, with ׳ מ 4 t.; omitted by Masora, Editions, Baer, but compare Theile, & Di on the passage); 1Chr 6:40 + 40 t. 1Chr 6; 1Chr 13:2; 1Chr 2:14 so also׳ שְׂדֵה מ Lev 25:34 ( H ), ׳ שְׂדֵי מ 2Chr 31:19 lands surrounding the holy city Ezek 48:15; Ezek 48:17 open land or space about the temple Ezek 45:2 only 1Chr 5:16 כלמִֿגְרְשֵׁי שָׁרוֺן of (pasture-) lands in a district, compare שׁרון. — Ezek 27:28 מגרשׁות, if true text, = open country about Tyre (opposed to sea, compare context), but see Da & compare above


גֹּרֹתָיו see גּוֺר below II. גור.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מגרש (mig-r)

Leviticus 25:34

KJV: But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
EHCC: But the field of the suburbs of

Joshua 14:4

KJV: For 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.
EHCC: with their suburbs for their cattle

Joshua 21:2

KJV: And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
EHCC: with the suburbs thereof

1 Chronicles 5:16

KJV: And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.their…: Heb. their goings forth
EHCC: in all the suburbs of Sharon,

1 Chronicles 6:55

KJV: And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
EHCC: (40). the auburbs thereof

1 Chronicles 6:74

KJV: And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
EHCC: (59).Mashal with Aer suburbs, 4nd Abdon

2 Chronicles 11:14

KJV: For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the Lord:
EHCC: left their suburds and their possession,

2 Chronicles 31:19

KJV: Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
EHCC: in the flelds of the suburbs of

2 Chronicles 36:5

KJV: Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
EHCC: to cast it out for a prey.

2 Chronicles 45:2

EHCC: in about for the suburbs (marg. void

2 Chronicles 48:15

EHCC: for dnching, and for suburbs :
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