VILLAGE (vil'Iaj), a collection of houses, smaller than a town or city. " Village " in the A. V., is the rendering of several Hebrew and Greek words.
1. Kaw-Pwr' (Heb. cri, protected, 1 Chron.
xxvii:25; Cant. vii:t I) is the proper Hebrew term for village. It appears also in the forms ke-feer' C"c;), covered as by walls (Neh. vi:2), and kojeer (7±, t Sam. vi:t8t, and is represented by the Arabic kejr, s till so much used. In the Hebrew the prefix kaw-fawr' implied a regular village, as Capernaum, which had in later times, however, outgrown the limits implied by its original desig nation.
2. Kbaw-lsare' (Hcb. inclosedt, is properly an inelosure, as of farm buildings inclosing a court (Josh. xiii:23, 28), the encampment of no mads (Gen. xxv:i6; Dent. ii:23, \ . "I lazerim"), and of hamlets near towns ( Josh. xv .32, sq.; Chron. iv:33; Neh. xi:25), especially nnwalled sub urbs of walled towns (Lev. xxv:31; comp. v:34).
3. Ka'aray (Gr. KNoi) is applied to Bethpage
(Matt. xxi:2), Bethany (Luke x:38; John xi:1), •m maus (Luke xxiv:i 31, Bethlehem (John vii:42). A distinction between city or town (7roXis) and village (K41) is pointed out in Luke viii:I.
4. Other terms arc improperly translated " vil lage." Thus the plural of Jaw-rawz' (Itch. from to sefarale), rendered "villages " (Ilab.
should he "captains" or "eminent men," i. a. men separated by their rank or prowess from the mass. In Judg. v:7, II, fier-aw-zone' prop erly rulers) is rendered " villages," and in Ezek. fier-aw-zolh' (Itch. means "open country." (Sec CITY; TOWN.) (Mc. & Str. OW.) VILLAINY (vilTin-y),(Heb.
deceitfulness, dishonesty, foolishness).
In Is. xxxii :6 "the vile person will speak vil lain•," may better he rendered "the fool speaks 1311y." In Jer. xxix :23 "villainy" is wickedness in the practice of adultery.