Genesis 13:5
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
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Herds
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Joel 1:18
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
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בָּקָר
bâqâr · baw-kawr'
30 times translated as this KJV form166 total Strong's occurrences
a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
Strong's KJV usage: beeve, bull ( -ock), calf, cow, great (cattle), heifer, herd, kine, ox.
Strong's first: Genesis 13:5Strong's last: Hosea 5:6
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ʻêder · ay'-der
2 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
an arrangement, i.e. muster (of animals)
Strong's KJV usage: drove, flock, herd.
Strong's first: Proverbs 27:23Strong's last: Joel 1:18
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miqneh · mik-neh'
1 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences
something bought, i.e. property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition
Strong's KJV usage: cattle, flock, herd, possession, purchase, substance.
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Strong's first: Genesis 47:18Strong's last: Genesis 47:18
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The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
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herd
HERD, noun
1. A collection or assemblage; applied to beasts when feeding or driven together. We say, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, bucks, harts, and in Scripture, a herd of swine. But we say, a flock of sheep, goats, or birds. A number of cattle going to market is called a drove.
2. A company of men or people, in contempt or detestation; a crowd; a rabble; as a vulgar herd
HERD, noun A keeper of cattle; used by Spenser, and still used in Scotland, but in English now seldom or never used, except in composition, as a shepherd, a goatherd, a swineherd.
HERD, verb intransitive To unite or associate, as beasts; to feed or run in collections. Most kinds of beasts manifest a disposition to herd
1. To associate; to unite in companies customarily.
2. To associate; to become one of a number or party.
HERD, verb transitive To form or put into a herd
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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