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# בּוֹקֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H951

**herdsman** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

herdsman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/951/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוֹקֵר: n.m.denom. herdsman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/951/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.denom. herdsman Am 7:14; of Amos himself, cf. אֲשֶׁר־הָיָה בַנֹּקְדִים 1:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] a herdsman (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 7:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.14/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַן עָמוֹס֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־אֲמַצְיָ֔ה לֹא־נָבִ֣יא אָנֹ֔כִי וְלֹ֥א בֶן־נָבִ֖יא אָנֹ֑כִי כִּֽי־בוֹקֵ֥ר אָנֹ֖כִי וּבוֹלֵ֥ס שִׁקְמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Amos and he.said to Amaziah not \[am\].a.prophet I and not \[am\].a.son of.a.prophet I (dm) \[was\].a.herdsman I and a.fig.picker of.sycamores

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/951/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).