Greek noun (feminine) · G4167
ποίμνη
poimnepoym'-nay
flock
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: poímnē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4167is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4167
a flock (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: flock, fold.
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
poimne is rendered "flock". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 26:31Then 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.’
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
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.’
Matthew 26:31ποίμνης
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- flock3
- a flock1
- flock.’1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ποίμνην2
- ποίμνης2
- ποίμνη1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Matthew
one use
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.’
- ποίμνηςpoimnesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flock.’
Luke
one use
And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.
- ποίμνηνpoimnennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: flock
John
one use
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.
- ποίμνηpoimnenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: flock
1 Corinthians
two uses
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
- ποίμνηνpoimnennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a flock
- ποίμνηςpoimnesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: flock
Where it leads
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.