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title: מִרְעֶה — pasturage · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִרְעֶה (4829), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: pasturage. BDB 1906: n.m. pasturage, pasture. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִרְעֶה

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«מִרְעֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pasturage** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** 4829 · **BDB:** מִרְעֶה²

### Glosses

pasture (11); a.pasture (1); your.pasture (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pasturage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4829/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. pasturage, pasture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4829/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 34:14 pasturage, pasture;—abs. מ׳ Gn 47:4 +; cstr. מִרְעֵה Is 32:14; sf. מִרְעֵהוּ Jb 39:8, מִרְעֵיכֶם Ez 34:18;—pasturage, לַצֹּאן Gn 47:4 (J), cf. 1 Ch 4:39, 41, also Is 32:14; מ׳ שָׁמֵן וָטוֹב v 40, cf. (fig.) Ez 34:14(×2), 18a; of cattle Jo 1:18, stag La 1:6; = pasture, of wild ass Jb 39:8; of כְּפִירִים Na 2:12 (but read מְעָרָה cave, for מרעה, We Now, ‖ מֶעוֹן); יֶתֶר מִרְעֵיכֶם Ez 34:18b (fig.).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִרְעֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4829/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 39:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.8/)

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יְת֣וּר הָרִ֣ים מִרְעֵ֑הוּ וְאַחַ֖ר כָּל־יָר֣וֹק יִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* it.explores mountains pasture its and after every green.plant it.searches

*JPS 1917:* The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

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[1 Chronicles 4:39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.39/)

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וַיֵּלְכוּ֙ לִמְב֣וֹא גְדֹ֔ר עַ֖ד לְמִזְרַ֣ח הַגָּ֑יְא לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ מִרְעֶ֖ה לְצֹאנָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went to the.entrance of.Gedor to to the.east of the.valley to seek pasture for flock\[s\] their

*JPS 1917:* And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

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