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title: מִגְרָשׁ — common · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִגְרָשׁ (4054), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 115 times: common. BDB 1906: n.m. common, common-land, open land. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִגְרָשׁ

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«מִגְרָשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **common** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 115 times · **Key:** 4054 · **BDB:** מִגְרָשׁ

### Glosses

lands (95); their.pasture (7); open.land (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִגְרָשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4054/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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