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# נֹקֵד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5349

**sheep-raiser** — used 2 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

sheep-raiser [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5349/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹקֵד: n.m. sheep-raiser, -dealer -tender [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5349/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sheep-raiser, -dealer, or -tender (LagNB 108);—abs. נ׳ 2 K 3:4 (of Mesha, king of Moab); pl. אֲשֶׁר הָיָה בַנֹּקְדִים מִתְּקוֹעַ Am 1:1 (of Amos, v. Dr; cf. 7:14, where read נוקד for בוקר according to We Now Dr, not GASm, v. Bu infr.); perhaps gloss, cf. BuKohut-Memorial, 106 f. Nowad loc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a sheep-breeder (1); sheep-tenders (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.4/#tree)

וּמֵישַׁ֥ע מֶֽלֶךְ־מוֹאָ֖ב הָיָ֣ה נֹקֵ֑ד וְהֵשִׁ֤יב לְמֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵאָה־אֶ֣לֶף כָּרִ֔ים וּמֵ֥אָה אֶ֖לֶף אֵילִ֥ים צָֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* and Mesha the.king of.Moab he.was a.sheep-breeder and he.returned to the.king of.Israel one.hundred thousand lambs and one.hundred thousand rams wool

*JPS 1917:* Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered unto the king of Israel the wool of a hundred thousand lambs, and of a hundred thousand rams.

[Amos 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.1.1/#tree)

דִּבְרֵ֣י עָמ֔וֹס אֲשֶׁר־הָיָ֥ה בַנֹּקְדִ֖ים מִתְּק֑וֹעַ אֲשֶׁר֩ חָזָ֨ה עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל בִּימֵ֣י ׀ עֻזִיָּ֣המֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֗ה וּבִימֵ֞י יָרָבְעָ֤ם בֶּן־יוֹאָשׁ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שְׁנָתַ֖יִם לִפְנֵ֥י הָרָֽעַשׁ׃

*Word for word:* the.words of.Amos who he.was among the sheep-tenders from Tekoa which he.saw on Israel in the.days of.Uzziah the.king of.Judah and in the.days of.Jeroboam the.son of.Joash the.king of.Israel two.years before the earthquake

*JPS 1917:* THE WORDS of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5349.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5349/): 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).