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# מַרְעִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4830

**pasturing** — used 10 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

pasturing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4830/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַרְעִית: n.f. pasturing, shepherding, pasturage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4830/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pasturing, shepherding, pasturage (always fig.);—sf. מַרְעִיתִי Je 23:1 Ez 34:31, מַרְעִיתֶ֑ךָ ψ 74:1; 79:13, etc.;— pasturing, shepherding, צֹאן מַרְעִיתִי, of Isr. as flock of י׳, Je 23:1; Ez 34:31, cf. ψ 74:1; 79:13; 100:3 + 95:7 (read צ׳ מ׳ וְעֶם יָדוֹ, cf. Hup-Now Che). pastureage, Ho 13:6 (Now כִּרְעוֹתָם), Is 49:9 Je 25:36. by meton. = flock Je 10:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 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: his pasture (2); my pasture (2); pasture (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 23:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.1/#tree)

ה֣וֹי רֹעִ֗ים מְאַבְּדִ֧ים וּמְפִצִ֛ים אֶת־צֹ֥אן מַרְעִיתִ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* woe.to! \[the\].shepherds \[who.are\].causing.to.stray and \[who.are\].scattering (et) the.flock my.pasture my the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture! saith the LORD.

[Hosea 13:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.13.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.13.6/#tree)

כְּמַרְעִיתָם֙ וַיִּשְׂבָּ֔עוּ שָׂבְע֖וּ וַיָּ֣רָם לִבָּ֑ם עַל־כֵּ֖ן שְׁכֵחֽוּנִי׃

*Word for word:* according to their.pasture and they.were.satisfied they.were.satisfied and it.was.exalted heart their therefore they forgot.me

*JPS 1917:* When they were fed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten Me.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4830/): 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).