H4830 - מִרְעִית (mirʻîyth)

H4830 מִרְעִית (mirʻîyth) meer-eeth'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

from 7462 in the sense of feeding; pasturage; concretely, a flock

KJV Usage: flock, pasture

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מַרְעִית (mir.it) — pasturing. 1) pasturing, pasturage, shepherding 1a) pasturing, shepherding 1b) pasturage 1c) flock (meton)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

מַרְעִית (H4830)

noun f · רעה

Landscapes

pasture land = open land with enough grass and plants to graze cattle or flocks of sheep and goats

ISA 49:9 · JER 25:36

Domestic Animals

flock = group of small domestic animals traveling and feeding together

JER 10:21

Possess

of (God's) pasture > belonging to (God) literally: (flock or people) of (someone's) pasture; = state of being owned and cared for someone else, ◄ like a shepherd owns and cares for his sheep

PSA 74:1 · PSA 79:13 · PSA 95:7 · PSA 100:3 · JER 23:1 · EZK 34:31

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[מַרְעִית] n.f. pasturing, shepherding, pasturage base