H5739 - עֵדֶר (ʻêder)

H5739 עֵדֶר (ʻêder) ay'-der

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

flock

Strong's Definition

an arrangement, i.e. muster (of animals)

Derivation: from H5737 (עֲדַר);

KJV Usage: drove, flock, herd.

TWOT Reference: 1572a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) flock, herd

1a) flock

1b) herds, flocks and herds

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G34 G4167 G4168

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) flock, herd 1a) flock 1b) herds, flocks and herds

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עֵדֶר ‛êder BDB Definition: 1) flock, herd 1a) flock 1b) herds, flocks and herds Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5737 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1572a Total KJV Occurrences: 38

Bible Occurrences (28)

29:2 29:3 29:8 30:40 32:16 32:19

5:16

17:34

32:28

24:2

78:52

27:23

17:2 32:14 40:11

6:3 13:17 13:20 31:10 31:24 51:23

34:12

1:18

2:12 5:8

2:14

10:3

1:14

Genesis 29:2

He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it... lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:3

When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:8

But they replied, We cannot..., until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.

Genesis 30:40

Jacob set apart the young, but made the [rest] face... the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

Genesis 32:16

He entrusted them to... his servants in separate herds... and told... them, Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.......

Genesis 32:19

He also instructed the second, the third,... and all those following behind the herds...: When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.

Judges 5:16

Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision....

1 Samuel 17:34

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,