chatser · court; village

What it means

chatser (חָצֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “court; village”.

Enclosed court, courtyard; also an unwalled village.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. An enclosed open space, like the temple's.
2. A group of houses without a wall, in the countryside.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

An enclosed space: the court or courtyard of a building; also a village without walls. BDB: a yard, enclosed by a fence; also a hamlet, similarly surrounded. From it come place names such as Hazor and Hazar-shual.

• The courtyard of the dwelling Exodus 27:9
• The courts of the temple 2 Kings 20:4Psalms 84:2
• Villages around the cities Joshua 19:15

Historical and cultural background

Exodus 27:9-18 describes the courtyard of the dwelling as an enclosure of “hangings of fine twisted linen” hung on pillars.

How we translate it

“Court” 89 times, “courts” 23, “courtyard” 29, “courtyards” 2, “villages” 47. It is “courtyard” for the enclosure of the dwelling in Exodus and “court” or “courts” for the temple (“the courts of YHWH”, Psalm 84:2); in the city lists of Joshua it is “villages” (“twelve cities with their villages”).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• court ×89
• villages ×47
• courtyard ×29
• courts ×23
• courtyards ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×29
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×6
• Joshua×32
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×6
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×9
• 2 Chronicles×7
• Nehemiah×9
• Esther×8
• Psalms×9
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×15
• Ezekiel×48
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 25:16

  These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve chiefs according to their peoples.

• Exodus 8:13

  YHWH did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courtyards, and out of the fields.

• Exodus 27:9

  You shall make the courtyard of the dwelling. For the southern side, toward the south, the courtyard shall have hangings of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for the one side,

• Exodus 27:12

  For the width of the courtyard on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their bases ten.

• Exodus 27:13

  The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be fifty cubits.

• Exodus 27:16

  For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four and their bases four.

• Exodus 27:17

  All the pillars of the courtyard all around shall be joined with rods of silver; their hooks of silver and their bases of bronze.

• Exodus 27:18

  The length of the courtyard shall be a hundred cubits, the width fifty all along, and the height five cubits, of fine twisted linen, and their bases of bronze.

• Exodus 27:19

  All the utensils of the dwelling for all its service, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the courtyard, shall be of bronze.

• Exodus 35:17

  the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its bases, and the screen of the gate of the courtyard;

• Exodus 35:18

  the pegs of the dwelling and the pegs of the courtyard and their cords;

• Exodus 38:9

  And he made the courtyard: for the south side, the hangings of the courtyard were of twisted fine linen, a hundred cubits,

• Exodus 38:15

  And for the second side, on this side and on that side of the gate of the courtyard, hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three and their bases three.

• Exodus 38:16

  All the hangings of the courtyard all around were of twisted fine linen.

• Exodus 38:17

  And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their rods of silver, and the overlaying of their tops of silver, and they were joined with rods of silver, all the pillars of the courtyard.

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 38:20

  And all the pegs for the dwelling and for the courtyard all around were of bronze.

• Exodus 38:31

  and the bases of the courtyard all around, and the bases of the gate of the courtyard, and all the pegs of the dwelling, and all the pegs of the courtyard all around.

• Exodus 39:40

  the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the courtyard, its cords and its pegs, and all the utensils for the service of the dwelling, for the tent of meeting;

• Exodus 40:8

  And you shall set up the courtyard all around, and you shall put the screen of the gate of the courtyard.

• Exodus 40:33

  And he set up the courtyard all around the dwelling and the altar, and put the screen of the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

• Leviticus 6:16

  What is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; it shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.

• Leviticus 6:26

  The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it; it shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 25:31

  But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be counted as the field of the land; they shall have redemption, and in the jubilee they shall go free.

• Numbers 3:26

  and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the court which is around the dwelling and the altar, and its cords, for all its service.

• Numbers 3:37

  and the pillars of the court all around, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords.

• Numbers 4:26

  and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court which is around the dwelling and the altar, and their cords, and all the utensils for their service; and all that is to be done with them, they shall do.

• Numbers 4:32

  and the pillars of the court all around, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords, with all their utensils and with all their service; and by names you shall assign the utensils of the charge of their load.

• Joshua 13:23

  And the border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan as a border. This is the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families: the cities and their villages.

• Joshua 13:28

  This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families: the cities and their villages.

• Joshua 15:32

  Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: twenty-nine cities in all, with their villages.

• Joshua 15:36

  Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages.

• Joshua 15:41

  Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages.

• Joshua 15:44

  Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.

• Joshua 15:45

  Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

• Joshua 15:46

  from Ekron to the sea, all that were beside Ashdod, with their villages;

• Joshua 15:47

  Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the Great Sea and its coast.

• Joshua 15:51

  Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.

• Joshua 15:54

  Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages.

• Joshua 15:57

  Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages.

And 150 more times.