Words the Bible translates as pasture
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- midbarמִדְבָּרwilderness: the open, unsettled, unwatered country beyond the farms and towns, where flocks graze and travelers cross at risk
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- mouth: the opening one speaks with, named for the act of speech
- ra'ahרָעָהto tend a flock: to lead grazing animals out, guard them, and bring them to food and water
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- to keep company with someone: to associate with a person as a friend or companion
- migrashמִגְרָשׁthe open belt of land that rings a town: its commons for grazing, kept free of building
- nomēνομήpasture: the grazing ground where a flock is fed and kept
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- spreading: the way a wound or rot eats outward through living flesh
- navehנָוֶהa settled place of rest: the shepherd's pasture and fold, and by extension the secure home of people or of God
- karכַּרa pasture or grassy meadow where flocks graze
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- a young ram or fattened male lamb, prized as choice livestock for food, sacrifice, or tribute
- a camel's saddle, or the cushioned basket-seat mounted on it
- a battering ram: a heavy siege engine used to break through a city wall or gate
- mirehמִרְעֶהpasture: the open land where a flock is taken to feed, and the grazing it finds there
- miritמַרְעִיתpasturing: the feeding a shepherd provides for his flock, and so both the grazing they live on and the flock that lives on it
- doverדֹּבֶרpasturenot studied yet
- re'iרְעִיpasturenot studied yet
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