Lexical Definition

‎מִגְרָשׁ‎ migrâsh (mig-rawsh') pasture ^H:N-M
also (in plural) feminine (Ezekiel 27:28) מִגְרָשָׁה migrâshâh (mig-raw-shaw'); from ‎גָּרַשׁ‎

cast out, suburb.

• a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven from pasture)
• hence, the area around abuilding, or the margin of the sea

1) common, common land, open land, suburb

See Greek: ἀφορίζω · διάστημα · κατάσχεσις · περίχωρος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎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 ‎֖‎ vJosh 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 vJosh 21:35 vJosh 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.

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