Pasture
נָוֶהStrong’s H5116naveh (na-veh)
Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naveh is the Hebrew word usually translated “habitation his”, “abode of” and “pasture”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.”
Meaning
- Abode, habitation, abode of shepherds or flocks, pastureabode (of sheep) · abode (of shepherds) · meadow · habitation
- Adj
How it's translated
- habitation his 4
- abode of 2
- the pasture 2
- a habitation 2
- in a habitation of 2
- pastureland of 2
- pastureland their 2
- in pastureland 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 11
- Isaiah 6
- Job 4
- Proverbs 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- Psalms 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 7:8Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
- 2 Samuel 15:25And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
- 1 Chronicles 17:7Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
- Job 5:3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Job 5:24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
- Job 8:6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Hebrew dictionary
נָוֶה naveh · pasture
1) abode, habitation, abode of shepherds or flocks, pasture 1a) abode (of sheep) 1b) abode (of shepherds) 1c) meadow 1d) habitation
נָוֶה naveh · dwelling
adj dwelling, abiding
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.