Words the Bible translates as tend
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ra'ahרָעָהto tend a flock: to lead grazing animals out, guard them, and bring them to food and water
+1 more meaning
- to keep company with someone: to associate with a person as a friend or companion
- poimainōποιμαίνωto act as a shepherd toward: to feed, guard, lead and govern those in one's charge
- boskōβόσκωto put animals out to feed: to keep a grazing herd supplied with food, or, of the herd, to be out eating
- natarנָטַרto keep: hold on to something and not let it go, whether a vineyard you guard or anger you refuse to release
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