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# מִרְעֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4829

**pasturage** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pasturage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4829/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִרְעֶה²: n.m. pasturage, pasture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4829/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 34:14 pasturage, pasture;—abs. מ׳ Gn 47:4 +; cstr. מִרְעֵה Is 32:14; sf. מִרְעֵהוּ Jb 39:8, מִרְעֵיכֶם Ez 34:18;—pasturage, לַצֹּאן Gn 47:4 (J), cf. 1 Ch 4:39, 41, also Is 32:14; מ׳ שָׁמֵן וָטוֹב v 40, cf. (fig.) Ez 34:14(×2), 18a; of cattle Jo 1:18, stag La 1:6; = pasture, of wild ass Jb 39:8; of כְּפִירִים Na 2:12 (but read מְעָרָה cave, for מרעה, We Now, ‖ מֶעוֹן); יֶתֶר מִרְעֵיכֶם Ez 34:18b (fig.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pasture (11); a pasture (1); your pasture (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.8/#tree)

יְת֣וּר הָרִ֣ים מִרְעֵ֑הוּ וְאַחַ֖ר כָּל־יָר֣וֹק יִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* it.explores mountains pasture its and after every green.plant it.searches

*JPS 1917:* The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

[1 Chronicles 4:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.39/#tree)

וַיֵּלְכוּ֙ לִמְב֣וֹא גְדֹ֔ר עַ֖ד לְמִזְרַ֣ח הַגָּ֑יְא לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ מִרְעֶ֖ה לְצֹאנָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went to the.entrance of.Gedor to to the.east of the.valley to seek pasture for flock\[s\] their

*JPS 1917:* And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4829.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4829/): 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).