ko.pher denotes an unwalled village in the contrast between fortified and unfortified settlements.

The attested use identifies an unwalled village as the counterpart to a fortified city in a statement extending from one kind of settlement to the other.

1. Unwalled settlement contrasted with a fortified city · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 6:18, the construct singular noun occurs in the phrase contrasting a fortified city with an unwalled village; the APB renders the wider clause "from the fortified city to the unwalled village."

   1 Samuel 6:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Samuel 6:18, the APB presents the term within the contrast "from the fortified city to the unwalled village." This identifies the clause's overall presentation rather than a precise one-word mapping.