H4829 - מִרְעֶה (mirʻeh)

H4829 מִרְעֶה (mirʻeh) meer-eh'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

pasture

Strong's Definition

pasture (the place or the act); also the haunt of wild animals

Derivation: from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of feeding;

KJV Usage: feeding place, pasture.

TWOT Reference: 2185b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) pasture, pasturage

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3542

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

pasture, pasturage

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מִרְעֶה mir‛eh BDB Definition: 1) pasture, pasturage Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H7462 in the sense of feeding Same Word by TWOT Number: 2185b Total KJV Occurrences: 13

Bible Occurrences (11)

47:4

4:39 4:40 4:41

39:8

32:14

1:6

34:14 34:18

1:18

2:11

Genesis 47:4

Then they said to Pharaoh, We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.

1 Chronicles 4:39

and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor,... to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.

1 Chronicles 4:40

There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious..., peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.

1 Chronicles 4:41

These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked [the Hamites] in their dwellings as well as the Meunites who were there, devoting them to destruction [even] to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture... for their flocks.

Job 39:8

He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever... — the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks —

Lamentations 1:6

All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.

Ezekiel 34:14

I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.