Strong's #7462: ra`ah (pronounced raw-aw')
a primitive root; to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend):--X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
râ‛âh
1) to pasture, tend, graze, feed
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to tend, pasture
1a1a) to shepherd
1a1b) of ruler, teacher (figuratively)
1a1c) of people as flock (figuratively)
1a1d) shepherd, herdsman (substantive)
1a2) to feed, graze
1a2a) of cows, sheep etc (literal)
1a2b) of idolater, Israel as flock (figuratively)
1b) (Hiphil) shepherd, shepherdess
2) to associate with, be a friend of (meaning probable)
2a) (Qal) to associate with
2b) (Hithpael) to be companions
3) (Piel) to be a special friend
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2185, 2186
Usage:
This word is used 171 times:
Genesis 4:2: "Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller"
Genesis 13:7: "And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's"
Genesis 13:7: "the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite"
Genesis 13:8: "I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we be brethren."
Genesis 13:8: "between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we be brethren."
Genesis 26:20: " And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water"
Genesis 26:20: "did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name"
Genesis 29:7: "water ye the sheep, and go and feed"
Genesis 29:9: "sheep: for she kept"
Genesis 30:31: "this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:"
Genesis 30:36: "between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks."
Genesis 36:24: "the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father."
Genesis 37:2: "being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren;"
Genesis 37:12: "And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem."
Genesis 37:13: "Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto"
Genesis 37:16: "me, I pray thee, where they feed"
Genesis 41:2: "favored kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow."
Genesis 41:18: "fatfleshed and well favored; and they fed in a meadow:"
Genesis 46:32: "And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought"
Genesis 46:34: "in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians."
Genesis 47:3: "unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also"
Genesis 48:15: "and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this"
Genesis 49:24: "by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)"
Exodus 2:17: " And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered"
Exodus 2:19: "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough"
Exodus 3:1: "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest"
Exodus 34:3: "the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before"
Numbers 14:33: "And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear"
Numbers 27:17: "as sheep which have no shepherd."
Judges 14:20: "was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend."
1 Samuel 16:11: "yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto"
1 Samuel 17:15: "and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep"
1 Samuel 17:34: "unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came"
1 Samuel 17:40: "out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling"
1 Samuel 21:7: "and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul."
1 Samuel 25:7: "that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt"
1 Samuel 25:16: "the while we were with them keeping the sheep."
2 Samuel 5:2: "in Israel: and the LORD said to thee Thou shalt feed my people"
2 Samuel 7:7: "of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel,"
1 Kings 22:17: "as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no"
1 Chronicles 11:2: "Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people"
1 Chronicles 17:6: "of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying,"
1 Chronicles 27:29: "And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds"
2 Chronicles 18:16: "as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no"
Job 1:14: "were plowing, and the asses feeding beside"
Job 24:2: "the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed"
Job 24:21: " He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow."
Psalms 23:1: "A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."
Psalms 28:9: "and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up forever."
Psalms 37:3: "so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed."
