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# פְּרָזָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6519

**open region** — used 3 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

open region [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6519/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְרָזָה: n.f. open region, hamlet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6519/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. open region, hamlet;—only pl. פְּרָזוֹת: אֶרֶץ פ׳ Ez 38:11 a land of hamlets (opp. חוֹמָה, etc.); פ׳ תֵּשֵׁב יְרוּשָׁלַםִ Zc 2:8 as open regions shall Jerusalem sit (וָשַׁב 4); עָרֵי הַפּ׳ Est 9:19 (opp. שׁוּשָׁן v 18); perhaps Ju 5:7 (פ׳ for פְּרָזוֹן, cf. 𝔖 𝔗 GFM).

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of unwalled villages (1); the open regions (1); unwalled villages (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.2.8/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔ורֻ֗ץ דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־הַנַּ֥עַר הַלָּ֖ז לֵאמֹ֑ר פְּרָזוֹת֙ תֵּשֵׁ֣ב יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם מֵרֹ֥ב אָדָ֛ם וּבְהֵמָ֖ה בְּתוֹכָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to him run speak to the.young man this (cmp) unwalled.villages it.will.remain Jerusalem from.\[the\] multitude of.person\[s\] and livestock in the.midst of.it

*JPS 1917:* and said unto him: 'Run, speak to this young man, saying: 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein.

[Ezekiel 38:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.11/#tree)

וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ אֶֽעֱלֶה֙ עַל־אֶ֣רֶץ פְּרָז֔וֹת אָבוֹא֙ הַשֹּׁ֣קְטִ֔ים יֹשְׁבֵ֖י לָבֶ֑טַח כֻּלָּ֗ם יֹֽשְׁבִים֙ בְּאֵ֣ין חוֹמָ֔ה וּבְרִ֥יחַ וּדְלָתַ֖יִם אֵ֥ין לָהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.say I.will.go.up on a.land of.unwalled.villages I.will.go \[those who.are\].at.peace \[who\].dwell to security of.them all \[are\].dwelling with not a.wall and bar\[s\] and gates there.\[belonged\].not to them

*JPS 1917:* and thou shalt say: I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will come upon them that are at quiet, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6519/): 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).