Fodder
מִסְפּוֹאStrong’s H4554mispo (mis-po)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mispo is the Hebrew word usually translated “fodder”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.”
Meaning
- Fodder, feed
How it's translated
- fodder 4
- and fodder 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- Judges 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:32And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.
- Genesis 42:27And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.
- Genesis 43:24And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
- Judges 19:19Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
Hebrew dictionary
מִסְפּוֹא mispo · fodder
fodder, feed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fodder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOD'DER, noun
- Food or dry food for cattle, horses and sheep, as hay, straw and other kinds of vegetables.
- In mining, a measure containing 20 hundred, or 22 1/2 hundred.
All definitions and other forms of “fodder”
FOD'DER, verb transitive
To feed with dry food, or cut grass, etc.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc. Farmers fodder their cattle twice or thrice in a day.
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.