עֵ֫דֶר

Genesis 29:2 עֶדְרֵי־ הָעֲדָרִ֑ים flocks of, the flocks

He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:3 הָעֲדָרִ֗ים the flocks

When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:8 הָ֣עֲדָרִ֔ים the flocks

But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

Genesis 30:40 עֲדָרִים֙ flocks

Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

Genesis 32:16 עֵ֥דֶר עֵ֖דֶר עֵ֖דֶר עֵֽדֶר׃ herd, a herd

He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”

Genesis 32:19 הָעֲדָרִ֖ים the herds

He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.

Judges 5:16 עֲדָרִ֑ים [the] flocks

Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.

1 Samuel 17:34 מֵהָעֵֽדֶר׃ from the flock

David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,

2 Chronicles 32:28 וַעֲדָרִ֖ים and flocks

He also made storehouses for the harvest of grain and new wine and oil, stalls for all kinds of livestock, and pens for the flocks.

Job 24:2 עֵ֥דֶר flock[s]

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

Psalm 78:52 כַּ֝עֵ֗דֶר like <the> flock

He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

Here: 'Like the herd'. A second word for a flock, here meaning a whole drove of animals moving together. Hebrew poetry often says a thing twice with different words, and this is the second half of the pair 'flock … herd'. It adds the picture of one mass on the move.

Proverbs 27:23 לַעֲדָרִֽים׃ to [the] herds

Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;

Here: 'To the droves' (the prefix la- means 'to/toward'). An ʿēder is a group of animals that move or are pastured together, used for sheep, goats or cattle. Here it repeats 'your flock' in the plural, so the hearer's attention covers every group he owns, not only the one in front of him.

Song of Songs 1:7 עֶדְרֵ֥י [the] flocks of

Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

Here: 'The flocks of…' — the ordinary word for a flock of sheep and goats. She pictures herself wandering from flock to flock looking for his.

Song of Songs 4:1 כְּעֵ֣דֶר [is] like [the] flock of

How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

Here: 'Like a flock of.' A flock is many animals moving as one body, which suits a mass of hair flowing as one.

Song of Songs 4:2 כְּעֵ֣דֶר [are] like [the] flock of

Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.

Song of Songs 6:5 כְּעֵ֣דֶר [is] like [the] flock of

Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.

Song of Songs 6:6 כְּעֵ֣דֶר [are] like [the] flock of

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.

Isaiah 17:2 לַעֲדָרִ֣ים for flocks

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

Here: "For flocks," with the word pulled forward for emphasis. The little word la- marks what the towns now serve: places built for human families have become grazing land for sheep and goats.

Isaiah 32:14 עֲדָרִֽים׃ flocks

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Isaiah 40:11 עֶדְר֣וֹ flock his

He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

Here: A herd or flock, usually of sheep and goats. "His" matters: these are his own animals, not hired work. The image is of the exiles of Israel as God's own flock.

Jeremiah 6:3 וְעֶדְרֵיהֶ֑ם and flocks their

Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

Jeremiah 13:17 עֵ֥דֶר [the] flock of

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Here: "Flock of." The people are pictured as sheep. This anticipates verse 20 ("Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful sheep?"), where Jerusalem's leaders are the shepherds who lost them.

Jeremiah 13:20 הָעֵ֙דֶר֙ [is] the flock

Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?

Here: 'The flock': a gathered herd under one keeper. Here it stands for the people of Judah and its towns, entrusted to Jerusalem and her rulers.

Jeremiah 31:10 עֶדְרֽוֹ׃ flock his

Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.

Here: 'His flock': a flock that belongs to the shepherd. The suffix stresses ownership and personal responsibility. Israel is YHWH's own flock.

Jeremiah 31:24 בַּעֵֽדֶר׃ with <the> flock

And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in the land, the farmers and those who move with the flocks,

Jeremiah 51:23 וְעֶדְר֔וֹ and flock his

With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.

Here: A herd or flock of sheep and goats. The word 'his' ties the man to the livelihood he lives on: the man and everything he owns go down together.

Ezekiel 34:12 עֶדְר֜וֹ flock his

As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

Here: A herd or flock seen as one group moving together. The shepherd sees his flock as a whole that has come apart.

Joel 1:18 עֶדְרֵ֣י עֶדְרֵ֥י [the] herds of, [the] flocks of

How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

Micah 2:12 כְּעֵ֙דֶר֙ like a flock

I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.

Here: A second word for flock, meaning a herd driven together, which repeats the picture of the first line.

Micah 5:8 בְּעֶדְרֵי among flocks of

Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.

Here: 'Among the flocks of': penned or grazing groups of domestic animals, helpless when a predator gets in.

Zephaniah 2:14 עֲדָרִים֙ herds

Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.

Zechariah 10:3 עֶדְרוֹ֙ flock his

“My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the LORD of Hosts attends to His flock, the house of Judah; He will make them like His royal steed in battle.

Here: 'His' flock. The sheep belong to Yahweh, not to the hired shepherds, and that ownership is why he steps in.

Malachi 1:14 בְּעֶדְרוֹ֙ among flock his

“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

Here: 'In his own flock.' The good animal is his, close at hand. Poverty is no excuse.