Isaiah 13:20
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
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Fold
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Hebrews 1:12
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
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נָוֶה
nâveh · naw-veh'
3 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
(adjectively) at home; hence (by implication of satisfaction) lovely; also (noun) a home, of God (temple), men (residence), flocks (pasture), or wild animals (den)
Strong's KJV usage: comely, dwelling (place), fold, habitation, pleasant place, sheepcote, stable, tarried.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 65:10Strong's last: Ezekiel 34:14
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aulḗ · ow-lay'
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a yard (as open to the wind); by implication, a mansion
Strong's KJV usage: :--court, (sheep-)fold, hall, palace.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 10:16Strong's last: John 10:16
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helíssō · hel-is'-so
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to coil or wrap
Strong's KJV usage: :--fold up.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 1:12Strong's last: Hebrews 1:12
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poímnē · poym'-nay
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a flock (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--flock, fold.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 10:16Strong's last: John 10:16
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dôber · do'-ber
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a pasture (from its arrangement of the flock)
Strong's KJV usage: fold, manner.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Micah 2:12Strong's last: Micah 2:12
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miklâʼâh · mik-law-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a pen (for flocks)
Strong's KJV usage: (sheep-)fold. Compare 4357.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Habakkuk 3:17Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:17
Open full H4356 profile →רָבַץ
râbats · raw-bats'
1 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
Strong's KJV usage: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
Strong's first: Isaiah 13:20Strong's last: Isaiah 13:20
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H7257
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
H5116
And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
H5116
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
H5116
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
H1699
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
H4356
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
G833
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
G4167
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
G1667
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
English meaning and historical usage.
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fold
FOLD, noun [See the verb, to fold ]
1. A pen or inclosure for sheep; a place where a flock of sheep is kept, whether in the field or under shelter.
2. A flock of sheep. Hence in a scriptural sense, the church, the flock of the Shepherd of Israel.
Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold John 10:16.
3. A limit. [Not in use.]
FOLD, noun
1. The doubling of any flexible substance, as cloth; complication; a plait; one part turned or bent and laid on another; as a fold of linen.
2. In composition, the same quantity added; as two fold four fold ten fold that is, twice as much, four times as much, ten times as much.
FOLD, verb transitive [Heb. The primary sense is to fall, or to lay, to set, throw or press together.]
1. To double; to lap or lay in plaits; as, to fold a piece of cloth.
2. To double and insert one part in another; as, to fold a letter.
3. To double or lay together, as the arms. He folds his arms in despair.
4. To confine sheep in a fold
FOLD, verb intransitive To close over another of the same kind; as, the leaves of the door fold
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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