Shepherd
נֹקֵדStrong’s H5349noqed (no-qed)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Noqed is the Hebrew word usually translated “sheep-breeder” and “among the sheep-tenders”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.”
Meaning
- Sheep-raiser, sheep-dealer, sheep-tender
How it's translated
- a sheep-breeder 1
- among the sheep-tenders 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- Amos 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
נֹקֵד noqed · shepherd
sheep-raiser, sheep-dealer, sheep-tender
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shepherd” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHEP'HERD, noun
- A man employed in tending, feeding and gaurding sheep in the pasture.
- A swain; a rural lover.
- The pastor of a parish, church or congregation; a minister of the gospel who superintends a church or parish, and gived instruction in spiritual things.
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.