Greek noun (masculine) · G4166
ποιμήν
poimenpoy-mane'
shepherd
18 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: poimḗn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4166is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4166
a shepherd (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: shepherd, pastor.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
poimen is rendered "shepherd". It stands 18 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Six of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 9:36When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Matthew 9:36ποιμένα.¶
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- shepherd11
- shepherds5
- a shepherd2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ποιμένα5
- ποιμὴν4
- ποιμένες3
- ποιμήν3
- ποιμένα.¶1
- ποιμένας1
- ποιμένων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular7N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular6N-ASM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3N-NPM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1N-GPM
Matthew
three uses
When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
- ποιμένα.¶poimenanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a shepherd
All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
- ποιμὴνpoimennoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: shepherd
Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
- ποιμέναpoimenanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: shepherd
Mark
two uses
When Jesus stepped ashore and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.
- ποιμέναpoimenanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a shepherd
Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’
- ποιμέναpoimenanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: shepherd
Luke
four uses
And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.
- ποιμένεςpoimenesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: shepherds
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
- ποιμένεςpoimenesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: shepherds
And all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.
- ποιμένωνpoimenonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: shepherds
The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, which was just as the angel had told them.
- ποιμένεςpoimenesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: shepherds
John
six uses
But the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
- ποιμήνpoimennoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: shepherd
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
- ποιμὴνpoimennoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: shepherd
- ποιμὴνpoimennoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: shepherd
The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.
- ποιμήνpoimennoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: shepherd
I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
- ποιμὴνpoimennoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: shepherd
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
- ποιμήνpoimennoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: shepherd
Ephesians
one use
And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
- ποιμέναςpoimenasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: shepherds
Hebrews
one use
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- ποιμέναpoimenanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Shepherd
1 Peter
one use
For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- ποιμέναpoimenanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Shepherd
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.