Chatser (sense II, always plural chatsrim/chatserim) denotes the small, unwalled settlements clustered around a fortified town — the hamlets and dependent villages that appear in nearly every tribal allotment list in Joshua. Distinguished from the homonymous chatser I ('courtyard, enclosure'), this word traces a line from the tent-circles of Ishmael's nomadic settlements (Gen 25:16, parallel to tiroth, 'encampments') through the Levitical law specifying that 'houses of the villages which have no wall' may be redeemed (Lev 25:31), to the exhaustive geographical catalogues of Joshua 13-21 where the formula 'and its villages' (va-chatsereiha) recurs dozens of times. The psalmist's rare use — 'the lurking-place of villages' (Ps 10:8) — evokes the vulnerability of unwalled habitations. Translations handle it with straightforward equivalents: Spanish 'aldeas,' French 'villages,' German 'Dörfer.'