thereabout
adverb
In Jewish tradition
It means the land around the Levite cities, the open pasture for their animals.
Interpretation. The Levites had no portion of land, so they were given cities and fields. The tradition reads this as a way to support those who serve the community.
Meaning
In or near that place. tree →
Examples
- and they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying: 'The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the open land thereabout for our cattle.' (Prophets JOS.21.2, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «thereabout» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «thereabout» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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