Flock
עֵ֫דֶרStrong’s H5739eder (e-der)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eder is the Hebrew word usually translated “like flock of”, “flock his” and “flocks of”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.”
Meaning
- Flock, herdflock · herds, flocks and herds
How it's translated
- like flock of 4
- flock his 4
- flocks of 3
- the flocks 3
- flocks 3
- herd 2
- a herd 2
- the herds 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Jeremiah 6
- Song of Solomon 5
- Isaiah 3
- Micah 2
- Judges 1
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 29:2And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
- Genesis 29:3And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
- Genesis 29:8And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
- Genesis 30:40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
- Genesis 32:16And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
- Genesis 32:19And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
All 33 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עֵ֫דֶר eder · flock
1) flock, herd 1a) flock 1b) herds, flocks and herds
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flock” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLOCK, noun
[Latin floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.]
- A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals.
- A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.
- A body or crowd of people. [little used.
- A lock of wool or hair.
All definitions and other forms of “flock”
FLOCK, verb intransitive
To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.
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.