'Villages' in the Bible
Sanballat and Geshem sent me a message: “Come, let’s meet together in the villages of the Ono Valley.” But they were planning to harm me.
These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—
The rest of Israel, the priests, and the Levites were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inherited property.
As for the farming settlements with their fields:Some of Judah’s descendants lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages,Dibon and its villages, and Jekabzeel and its villages;
Zanoah and Adullam with their villages;in Lachish with its fields and Azekah and its villages.So they settled from Beer-sheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
Benjamin’s descendants:from Geba, Michmash, Aija,and Bethel—and its villages,
The singers gathered from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,
from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.