Numbers 32:24
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
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Folds
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Zephaniah 2:6
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
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גְּדֵרָה
gᵉdêrâh · ghed-ay-raw'
3 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
inclosure (especially for flocks)
Strong's KJV usage: (sheep-) cote (fold) hedge, wall.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 32:24Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:6
Open full H1448 profile →מִכְלָאָה
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: Psalms 50:9Strong's last: Psalms 50:9
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nâveh · naw-veh'
1 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: Jeremiah 23:3Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:3
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H1448
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
H1448
And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
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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