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# מִגְרָשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4054

**common** — used 115 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

common [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4054/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִגְרָשׁ: n.m. common, common-land, open land [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4054/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Nu 35:2 common, common-land, open land (perhaps orig. pasture-land, as place of \[cattle\] driving)—abs. מ׳ Ez 45:2 + 2 times + Ez 48:15 (Co מגרשָׁהּ); cstr. מִגְרַשׁ Lv 25:34; 2 Ch 31:19; (on מִגְרָשָׁהּ Ez 36:5 cf. גרשׁ); elsewhere pl., abs. מִגְרשׁוֹת Ez 27:28 (Baer); Co מרעשׁת assumed from רָעַשׁ, cf. 𝔊; cstr. מִגְרְשֵׁי Nu 35:4 + 2 times; sf. מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ Jos 21:13(×2) + 42 times; מִגְרָשֶׁהָ Jos 21:11 + 46 times in Jos 21 (generally –֑ or –֔ but also –֖ v 21); מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶם Nu 35:3 + 4 times; מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶן Nu 35:7 + 8 times—commonland, usually pl., and usually as attached to a city or town, especially as surrounding Levitical cities Nu 35:2, 3, 4, 5, 7 Jos 14:4; 21:2 + 55 times Jos 21 (all P; in Codd. & old Vrss. are two vv Jos 21, betw. v 35, 36, with מ׳ 4 times; om. Mass, Edd., Baer, but cf. Theile, & Di ad loc.); 1 Ch 6:40 + 40 times 1 Ch 6; 13:2; 2 Ch 11:14; so also שְׂדֵה מ׳ Lv 25:34 (P), שְׂדֵי מ׳ 2 Ch 31:19; lands surrounding the holy city Ez 48:15, 17; open land or space about the temple Ez 45:2; only 1 Ch 5:16 כל־מִגְרְשֵׁי שָׁרוֹן of (pasture-)lands in a district, cf. שׁרון.—Ez 27:28 מגרשׁות, if true text, = open country about Tyre (opp. sea, cf. context), but v. Da & cf. supr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lands (95); their pasture (7); open land (3).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 27:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.28/#tree)

לְק֖וֹל זַעֲקַ֣ת חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּ מִגְרֹשֽׁוֹת׃

*Word for word:* to the.sound of.the.outcry your.sailors your they.will.quake pasturelands

*JPS 1917:* At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the waves shall shake.

[Joshua 21:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.19/#tree)

כָּל־עָרֵ֥י בְנֵֽי־אַהֲרֹ֖ן הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֑ים שְׁלֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה עָרִ֖ים וּמִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* all the.cities of.the.descendants of.Aaron the priests \[were\].thir- teen cities and their.pasture lands

*JPS 1917:* All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with the open land about them.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4054/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).