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chatser, an enclosure of huts; chatserot; from a root "to enclose"; unwalled suburbs outside of walled towns (; ; ; ; ). The Jehalin Arabs arrange their tents in a circle for security against attack; the village huts were often perhaps similarly arranged. Cities are often mentioned in the Old Testament with their dependent villages. So in the New Testament, , "villages of Caesarea Philippi." In "village towns" (komopoleis) of Galilee. Caphar designates a regular village, and appears in "Caper-naum," which subsequently became a town; from kaphar "to cover" or "protect" (; ).