Pasture
מִרְעֶהStrong’s H4829mireh (mir-eh)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mireh is the Hebrew word usually translated “pasture”, “pasture its” and “pasture of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
Meaning
- Pasture, pasturage
How it's translated
- pasture 6
- and pasture 2
- pasture its 1
- a pasture of 1
- in pasture 1
- the pasture 1
- pasture your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 3
- Ezekiel 2
- Genesis 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 4:39And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
- 1 Chronicles 4:40And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
- 1 Chronicles 4:41And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
- Job 39:8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
- Isaiah 32:14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
- Lamentations 1:6And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Hebrew dictionary
מִרְעֶה mireh · pasture
pasture, pasturage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pasture” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ASTURE, noun
[Latin pasco, pastum, to feed.]
- Grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
- Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food or cattle.
- Human culture; education. [Not used.]
All definitions and other forms of “pasture”
P'ASTURE, verb transitive
To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.
P'ASTURE, verb intransitive
To graze; to take food by eating grass from the ground.
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.