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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H1241
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
H1241
And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
H1241
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
H1241
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
H1241
And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
H1241
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
H1241
And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
H1241
Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
H1241
And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
H4735
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
H1241
And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
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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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