מִרְעֶה
mirʻeh · H4829 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Thing
- GrassPlants for weaving and building100 verses
Meanings
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pasture land
Open land with enough grass and plants to graze cattle or flocks of sheep and goats
ExamplesGenesis 47:4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
1 Chronicles 4:39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
1 Chronicles 4:40 They found pasture that was rich and good, and the land was spread out on both sides, and peaceful and undisturbed; for those who lived there previously were Hamites.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- עֵדֶרflock 1
- הוּhis 1
- כֶםyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- טוֹבgood 3
- שָׁמֵןfat, rich, fertile 2
- הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
- אַיִןthere is no, not 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- מָצָאto find 2
- רָעָהto shepherd, to feed, to graze 2
- בָּקַשׁto seek, to search, to look for 1
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 2
- שָׁםthere 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יֶתֶרremainder 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- νομή nomḗ · G3542 · pasture, extension, extend
- Greek νομή rendered Hebrew מִרְעֶה in LXX contexts denoting literal pasture/grazing land (both terms share the core semantic field of livestock feeding-place, with νομή encompassing both the act of pasturing and the pasture itself as place).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landscapes001002004
- The word denotes a feeding place or pasture, an open grazing landscape.
Word family 14 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4829. mireh מִרְעֶה noun masculineEze 34:14 pasturage, pasture; — absolute ׳מ Gen 47:4…
מִרְעֶה noun masculineEze 34:14 pasturage, pasture; — absolute ׳מ Gen 47:4 +; construct מִרְעֵה Isa 34:14; suffix מִרְעֵהוּ Job 39:8, מִעֵיכֶם Eze 34:8; — pasturage, לַצּאֹן Gen 47:4 (J), compare 1Ch 4:39, 1Ch 4:41, also Isa 32:14; ׳מ וָטוֺב שָׂמֵן Isaiah 32:40, compare (figurative) Eze 34:14 (twice in verse); Eze 34:18a; of cattle Joe 1:18, stag Lam 1:6; = pasture, of wild ass Job 39:8; of כְּפִירִים Nah 2:12 (but read מְעָרָה cave, for מרעה, We Now, || מָעוֺן); מִרְעֵיכֶם יֶתֶר Eze 34:18b (figurative).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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