8 Or “high walls and barred gates” (); Heb “high walls, gates, and bars.” Since “bars” could be understood to mean “saloons,” the qualifying adjective “locking” has been supplied in the translation.
9 The Hebrew term פְּרָזִי (péraziy) refers to rural areas, at the most “unwalled villages” (, “unwalled towns”).

In other versions

All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.

All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.

All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time.

All of these were fortified towns with high walls, gates, and bars, apart from very many of the villages of the open country.

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

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