פרבר

Hebrew

Alternative forms

• פרוור / פַּרְוָר (par'vár)
• פַּרְבָר (par'vár)

Noun

פַּרְבָּר • (par'bár) m (plural indefinite פַּרְבָּרִים, singular construct פַּרְבַּר־, plural construct פַּרְבָּרֵי־)

1. a suburb (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
   • Tanach, 1 Kings 23:11:

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     וַיַּשְׁבֵּת אֶת־הַסּוּסִים אֲשֶׁר נָתְנוּ מַלְכֵי יְהוּדָה לַשֶּׁמֶשׁ מִבֹּא בֵית־יְהוָה אֶל־לִשְׁכַּת נְתַן־מֶלֶךְ הַסָּרִיס אֲשֶׁר בַּפַּרְוָרִים וְאֶת־מַרְכְּבֹות הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ שָׂרַף בָּאֵֽשׁ׃

     And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

   • Tanach, 1 Chronicles 26:18:

     לַפַּרְבָּר לַֽמַּעֲרָב אַרְבָּעָה לַֽמְסִלָּה שְׁנַיִם לַפַּרְבָּֽר׃

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   • 1909, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Behind the Fence 1:

     פּרבּר העצים שהיה לפני עשׂרים וּשלשים שנה מקום של ישוב קטן […]

     The suburb of trees that was twenty and thirty years ago a place of a small village […]