Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4829
מִרְעֶה
mirehmeer-eh'
pasture
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mirʻeh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4829is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4829
pasture (the place or the act); also the haunt of wild animals
The King James renders it: feeding place, pasture.
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
mireh is rendered "pasture". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 47:4Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 47:4מִרְעֶ֗ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's thirteen uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- pasture6
- and pasture2
- a pasture of1
- in pasture1
- pasture its1
- pasture your1
- the pasture1
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 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- וּמִרְעֶ֥ה2
- מִרְעֶ֖ה2
- בְּמִרְעֶה־1
- הַמִּרְעֶ֤ה1
- מִרְעֵ֥ה1
- מִרְעֶ֗ה1
- מִרְעֶה֙1
- מִרְעֶ֥ה1
- מִרְעֶ֔ה1
- מִרְעֵ֑הוּ1
- מִרְעֵיכֶ֔ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular6HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp2mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
- מִרְעֶ֗הmirehnoun · masculine singulartagged: pasture
1 Chronicles
three uses
and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.
- מִרְעֶ֖הmirehnoun · masculine singulartagged: pasture
There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.
- מִרְעֶה֙mirehnoun · masculine singulartagged: pasture
These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites and Meunites there in their dwellings, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.
- מִרְעֶ֥הmirehnoun · masculine singulartagged: pasture
Job
one use
He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
- מִרְעֵ֑הוּmirehunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: pasture its
Isaiah
one use
For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
- מִרְעֵ֥הmirehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a pasture of
Lamentations
one use
All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.
- מִרְעֶ֔הmirehnoun · masculine singulartagged: pasture
Ezekiel
four uses
I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
- בְּמִרְעֶה־bemireh-preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in pasture
- וּמִרְעֶ֥הumirehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pasture
Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
- הַמִּרְעֶ֤הhamirehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pasture
- מִרְעֵיכֶ֔םmireikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: pasture your
Joel
one use
How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
- מִרְעֶ֖הmirehnoun · masculine singulartagged: pasture
Nahum
one use
Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
- וּמִרְעֶ֥הumirehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and pasture
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.