Part of Speech: Noun
Strong's Number: H4054
Original Word: migrash
Usage Notes: "suburbs; pasture land; open land." This noun occurs about 100 times, mainly in Joshua an First Chronicles. It denotes the untilled ground outside a city or the "pasture land" belonging to the cities: "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" (Josh 14:4).
Ezekiel describes a strip of land for the Levites around the city. Part of the land was to be used for houses and part to be left: "And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof" (Ezek 48:15). The Septuagint translates the word perisporia ("suburb").
Usage Number: 2
Part of Speech: Verb
Strong's Number: H1644
Original Word: garash
Usage Notes: "to drive out, cast out." This verb occurs about 45 times. An early occurrence in the Old Testament is in Exod 34:11: "… Behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite…." The word may be used of a divorced woman as in Lev 21:7, a woman that is "put away from her husband."
