Pasturing
מַרְעִיתStrong’s H4830mirit (mir-it)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mirit is the Hebrew word usually translated “pasture your”, “pasture his” and “pasture their”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?”
Meaning
- Pasturing, pasturage, shepherdingpasturing, shepherding · pasturage · flock (meton)
How it's translated
- pasture your 2
- pasture his 2
- pasture their 2
- pasture my 2
- flock their 1
- according to pasture their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Jeremiah 3
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Hosea 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 79:13So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
- Psalms 95:7For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
- Psalms 100:3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Isaiah 49:9That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
- Jeremiah 10:21For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
- Jeremiah 23:1Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
מַרְעִית mirit · pasturing
1) pasturing, pasturage, shepherding 1a) pasturing, shepherding 1b) pasturage 1c) flock (meton)
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.