pasture
mig.rash denotes land associated with a city, especially the areas assigned around Levitical cities and for livestock.
The word most often identifies land belonging with particular cities, repeatedly assigned alongside Levitical cities and associated with livestock. In a smaller set of contexts it denotes pasture or open land more generally, including measured land around a city and land treated as spoil.
Senses in use
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Land attached to an assigned city · dominant
The plural construct form regularly occurs with named cities in allocation lists: in Joshua 21:13 the APB renders Hebron and Libnah with their “pasture,” and Joshua 21:27 similarly pairs Golan and Beeshterah with such land. Joshua 14:4 places these areas beside cities given to the Levites for dwelling and for livestock, while 1 Chronicles 6:64 summarizes the gift as cities and their pasture lands.
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Pasture or open land as territory · occasional
In 1 Chronicles 5:16 the plural construct form occurs in a statement that people lived in Gilead, Bashan, and the pastures of Sharon. Singular forms describe measured land around a holy area or city in Ezekiel 45:2 and Ezekiel 48:17; Ezekiel 36:5 places the term in a clause about land given as a possession and treated as plunder.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly renders the term as “pasture,” “pasture lands,” or “pastureland,” especially where it is attached to named cities. In Ezekiel 48:15 it renders the surrounding area simply as “pasture”; these renderings confirm the verse contexts.