TBESH · H7462A
בֵּית־עֵ֫קֶד הָרֹעִים · bet-e.qed ha.ro.im · House of Shepherds
Ra'ah = "pasturing" perh. "binding-house of the shepherds"
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bet-e.qed ha.ro.im H7462
בֵּית־עֵ֫קֶד הָרֹעִים (bet-e.qed ha.ro.im) means “House of Shepherds” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
בֵּית־עֵ֫קֶד הָרֹעִים Hebrew · H7462 175 tagged occurrences in 146 verses
Pronunciation guide: raw-aw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H7462B
רָעָה · ra.ah · to pasture
1) to pasture, tend, graze, feed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tend, pasture 1a1a) to shepherd 1a1b) of ruler, teacher (fig) 1a1c) of people as flock (fig) 1a1d) shepherd, herdsman (subst) 1a2) to feed, graze 1a2a) of cows, sheep etc (literal) 1a2b) of idolater, Israel as flock (fig) 1b) (Hiphil) shepherd, shepherdess Also means: ro.i (רֹעִי "to shepherd" H7473)
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TBESH · H7462C
רָעָה · ra.ah · to accompany
1) to associate with, be a friend of (meaning probable) 1a) (Qal) to associate with 1b) (Hithpael) to be companions
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TBESH · H7462D
רָעָה · ra.ah · to befriend
(Piel) to be a special friend
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
KJV glosses: [idiom] break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, [phrase] shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
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How translators render H7462
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| shepherd | 11 |
| the shepherds | 9 |
| shepherds | 8 |
| a shepherd | 7 |
| of the shepherds | 5 |
| feed | 4 |
| the shepherd | 4 |
| are shepherds | 3 |
| will graze | 3 |
| you shepherds | 3 |
| and began to graze | 2 |
| as a shepherd | 2 |
| but a companion | 2 |
| feeds on | 2 |
| for shepherds | 2 |
| grazing | 2 |
| he pastures his flock | 2 |
| my shepherd | 2 |
| shepherd them | 2 |
| shepherding | 2 |
| tending | 2 |
| they will feed | 2 |
| to pasture | 2 |
| to shepherd | 2 |
| to the shepherds | 2 |
| will feed | 2 |
| will shepherd | 2 |
| your shepherds | 2 |
| a keeper | 1 |
| and because my shepherds | 1 |
| and cultivate | 1 |
| and feed | 1 |
| and graze | 1 |
| and he will feed | 1 |
| and he will graze | 1 |
| and i pastured | 1 |
| and my herdsmen | 1 |
| and shepherd his flock | 1 |
| and the herdsmen | 1 |
| and the leaders | 1 |
| and they will rule | 1 |
| and when some shepherds | 1 |
| are pasturing their flocks | 1 |
| as he was pasturing | 1 |
| but fed | 1 |
| but the companion | 1 |
| but the herdsmen | 1 |
| do you pasture your sheep | 1 |
| eat | 1 |
| even their own shepherds | 1 |
| feed on | 1 |
| feed them | 1 |
| feed upon it | 1 |
| from being your shepherd | 1 |
| from tending | 1 |
| graze | 1 |
| had accompanied | 1 |
| has been tending | 1 |
| have shaved | 1 |
| he feeds on | 1 |
| he tends | 1 |
| herding | 1 |
| herdsmen | 1 |
| i will feed | 1 |
| i will feed them | 1 |
| i will shepherd them | 1 |
| is my shepherd | 1 |
| let them graze | 1 |
| like a shepherd | 1 |
| like a shepherds | 1 |
| make friends | 1 |
| may graze | 1 |
| o shepherd | 1 |
| of a shepherd | 1 |
| of his shepherds | 1 |
| of shepherds | 1 |
| only feed | 1 |
| pasture | 1 |
| pasturing | 1 |
| shepherd you | 1 |
| so david shepherded them | 1 |
| so i pastured | 1 |
| the herdsmen | 1 |
| their shepherds | 1 |
| them | 1 |
| they pasture | 1 |
| they prey | 1 |
| they will find pasture | 1 |
| to be shepherd | 1 |
| to pasture his flock | 1 |
| to tend | 1 |
| was a shepherdess | 1 |
| was shepherding | 1 |
| were grazing | 1 |
| when your shepherds | 1 |
| who has been my shepherd | 1 |
| who tend | 1 |
| who will feed | 1 |
| who will tend them | 1 |
| will be their shepherd | 1 |
| will drive away | 1 |
| will feed together | 1 |
| will find pasture | 1 |
| will tend | 1 |
| you to feed on | 1 |
| your herdsmen | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| feed | 13 |
| shepherds | 6 |
| and feed | 5 |
| to feed | 5 |
| of the shepherds | 4 |
| shall feed | 4 |
| shepherd | 4 |
| against the shepherds | 3 |
| i will feed | 3 |
| no shepherd | 3 |
| and the herdmen | 2 |
| and the shepherds | 2 |
| and they fed | 2 |
| as a shepherd | 2 |
| fed | 2 |
| feedeth | 2 |
| he shall feed | 2 |
| kept | 2 |
| my shepherd | 2 |
| of shepherds | 2 |
| that shepherd | 2 |
| the shepherd | 2 |
| they shall feed | 2 |
| a pastor | 1 |
| a shepherd | 1 |
| against my shepherd | 1 |
| against the pastors | 1 |
| all thy pastors | 1 |
| and behold he keepeth | 1 |
| and he shall feed | 1 |
| and i fed | 1 |
| and i will feed | 1 |
| and their own shepherds | 1 |
| and they shall waste | 1 |
| and thy herdmen | 1 |
| as he fed | 1 |
| as the shepherd | 1 |
| at the shearing | 1 |
| be unto the pastors | 1 |
| beside the shepherds | 1 |
| between the herdmen | 1 |
| but a companion | 1 |
| but he that is a companion | 1 |
| but he that keepeth company | 1 |
| but the shepherds | 1 |
| doth devour | 1 |
| feeding | 1 |
| for every shepherd | 1 |
| for she kept them | 1 |
| for shepherds | 1 |
| for the pastors | 1 |
| for they shall feed | 1 |
| from feeding | 1 |
| have broken | 1 |
| he evil entreateth | 1 |
| he feedeth | 1 |
| herdmen | 1 |
| him as a shepherd | 1 |
| him to feed | 1 |
| his he feedeth | 1 |
| i i will not feed | 1 |
| i pray thee between me and thee and between my herdmen | 1 |
| let them feed | 1 |
| let them not feed | 1 |
| like a shepherd | 1 |
| make no friendship | 1 |
| me not the pastors | 1 |
| mine he feedeth | 1 |
| neither did my shepherds | 1 |
| neither shall the shepherds | 1 |
| now thy shepherds | 1 |
| o shepherd | 1 |
| of the herdmen | 1 |
| over them and he shall feed | 1 |
| over them which shall feed | 1 |
| pastors | 1 |
| shall eat up | 1 |
| shall not feed | 1 |
| shall they feed | 1 |
| shall wander | 1 |
| so he fed | 1 |
| that do feed | 1 |
| that fed | 1 |
| that feed | 1 |
| that have no shepherd | 1 |
| that have not a shepherd | 1 |
| the shepherds | 1 |
| their shepherds | 1 |
| them and he shall be their shepherd | 1 |
| them in a shepherds | 1 |
| themselves and fed | 1 |
| themselves should not the shepherds | 1 |
| there neither shall the shepherds | 1 |
| therefore o ye shepherds | 1 |
| therefore ye shepherds | 1 |
| they eat | 1 |
| they feed | 1 |
| thou shalt be fed | 1 |
| thy shepherds | 1 |
| to the shepherds | 1 |
| to thee thou shalt feed | 1 |
| unto the shepherds | 1 |
| unto thee thou shalt feed | 1 |
| unto you to have eaten up | 1 |
| was a keeper | 1 |
| was feeding | 1 |
| we were with them keeping | 1 |
| where thou feedest | 1 |
| which fed | 1 |
| which feed | 1 |
| which have no shepherd | 1 |
| which shall feed | 1 |
| whom he had used as his friend | 1 |
| will feed | 1 |
| with the shepherd | 1 |
| with thee the shepherd | 1 |
| ye feed | 1 |
| ye shepherds | 1 |
| you pastors | 1 |
| yourselves they shall feed | 1 |
Verses containing H7462
Page 1 of 3. 146 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 4:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
Read word by word - Genesis 13:7
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
Read word by word - Genesis 13:8
· BSB · 2 occurrences
So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are kinsmen.
Read word by word - Genesis 26:20
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Read word by word - Genesis 29:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
Read word by word - Genesis 29:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Read word by word - Genesis 30:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
Read word by word - Genesis 30:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
Read word by word - Genesis 36:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
Read word by word - Genesis 37:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
Read word by word - Genesis 37:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
Read word by word - Genesis 37:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
Read word by word - Genesis 37:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
Read word by word - Genesis 41:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
Read word by word - Genesis 41:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
Read word by word - Genesis 46:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’
Read word by word - Genesis 46:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
Read word by word - Genesis 47:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”
Read word by word - Genesis 48:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
Read word by word - Genesis 49:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
Read word by word - Exodus 2:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.
Read word by word - Exodus 2:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
Read word by word - Exodus 3:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Read word by word - Exodus 34:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”
Read word by word - Numbers 14:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
Read word by word - Numbers 27:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
Read word by word - Judges 14:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 17:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 17:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 17:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 21:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.8
- 1 Samuel 25:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 5:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 7:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people Israel, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
Read word by word - 1 Kings 22:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 10:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jehu set out toward Samaria. At Beth-eked of the Shepherds,
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 11:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Even in times past, while Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And the LORD your God said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 17:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 27:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Shitrai the Sharonite was in charge of the herds grazing in Sharon. Shaphat son of Adlai was in charge of the herds in the valleys.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 18:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
Read word by word - Job 1:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
Read word by word - Job 24:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
Read word by word - Job 24:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
Read word by word - Psalms 23:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Read word by word - Psalms 28:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
Read word by word - Psalms 37:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
Read word by word - Psalms 49:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 49.15
- Psalms 78:71
· BSB · 1 occurrence
from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
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