Pasture
רְעִיStrong’s H7471rei (re-i)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Rei is the Hebrew word usually translated “pasture”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.”
Meaning
- Pasture
How it's translated
- pasture 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
רְעִי rei · pasture
pasture
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.