Enclosure
בׇּצְרָהStrong’s H1223botsrah (bots-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Botsrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “sheepfold”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.”
Meaning
- Enclosure, fold, sheepfold (AV-Bozrah)
How it's translated
- a sheepfold 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Micah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בׇּצְרָה botsrah · enclosure
enclosure, fold, sheepfold (AV-Bozrah)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sheepfold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHEE'PFOLD, noun
[sheep and fold.]
A place where sheep are collected or confined.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.