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 · 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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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.

BSB rendering counts
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

KJV rendering counts
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

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Psalms 78:72 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
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Psalms 80:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
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Source alternate reference: 80.2
Psalms 80:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
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Source alternate reference: 80.14
Proverbs 10:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
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Proverbs 13:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
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Proverbs 15:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
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Proverbs 22:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
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Proverbs 28:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
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Proverbs 29:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
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Ecclesiastes 12:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
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Song of Solomon 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
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Song of Solomon 1:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
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Song of Solomon 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
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Song of Solomon 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
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Song of Solomon 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.
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Song of Solomon 6:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
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Isaiah 5:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
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Isaiah 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
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Isaiah 13:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
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Isaiah 14:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.
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Isaiah 27:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
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Isaiah 30:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
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Isaiah 31:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
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Isaiah 38:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
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Isaiah 40:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
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Isaiah 44:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
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Isaiah 44:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’”
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Isaiah 49:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
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Isaiah 56:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:
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Isaiah 61:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
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Isaiah 63:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
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Isaiah 65:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
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Jeremiah 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
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Jeremiah 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.
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Jeremiah 3:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
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Jeremiah 6:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:
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Jeremiah 10:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
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Jeremiah 12:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
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Jeremiah 17:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.
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Jeremiah 22:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
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Jeremiah 23:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 23:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 23:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 25:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
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Jeremiah 25:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.
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Jeremiah 25:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.
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Jeremiah 31:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
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Jeremiah 33:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.
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Jeremiah 43:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.
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Jeremiah 49:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
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