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title: בּוֹקֵר — herdsman · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בּוֹקֵר (951), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: herdsman. BDB 1906: n.m.denom. herdsman. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בּוֹקֵר

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«בּוֹקֵר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **herdsman** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 951 · **BDB:** בּוֹקֵר

### Glosses

\[was\].a.herdsman (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

herdsman [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/951/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m.denom. herdsman [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/951/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.denom. herdsman Am 7:14; of Amos himself, cf. אֲשֶׁר־הָיָה בַנֹּקְדִים 1:1.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בּוֹקֵר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/951/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 7:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.14/)

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וַיַּ֤עַן עָמוֹס֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־אֲמַצְיָ֔ה לֹא־נָבִ֣יא אָנֹ֔כִי וְלֹ֥א בֶן־נָבִ֖יא אָנֹ֑כִי כִּֽי־בוֹקֵ֥ר אָנֹ֖כִי וּבוֹלֵ֥ס שִׁקְמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Amos and he.said to Amaziah not \[am\].a.prophet I and not \[am\].a.son of.a.prophet I (dm) \[was\].a.herdsman I and a.fig.picker of.sycamores

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees;

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