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That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Read in context →And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Read in context →6 occurrences in 5 verses.
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râʻâh · raw-aw'
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Strong's KJV usage: × break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Strong's first: Genesis 46:34Strong's last: Zechariah 13:7
Open full H7462 profile →poimḗn · poy-mane'
a shepherd (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--shepherd, pastor.
Strong's first: Matthew 9:36Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:25
Open full G4166 profile →archipoímēn · ar-khee-poy'-mane
a head shepherd
Strong's KJV usage: :--chief shepherd.
Strong's first: 1 Peter 5:4Strong's last: 1 Peter 5:4
Open full G750 profile →rôʻîy · ro-ee'
pastoral; as noun, a shepherd
Strong's KJV usage: shipherd.
Strong's first: Zechariah 11:17Strong's last: Zechariah 11:17
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For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
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SHEP'HERD, noun
1. A man employed in tending, feeding and gaurding sheep in the pasture.
2. A swain; a rural lover.
3. The pastor of a parish, church or congregation; a minister of the gospel who superintends a church or parish, and gived instruction in spiritual things. God and Christ are in Scripture dinominated Shepherds, as they lead, protect and govern their people, and provide for their wilfare.
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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