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:
Micah 5:4: "And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God;"
Micah 5:5: "then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men."
Micah 7:14: " Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood,"
Micah 7:14: "in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old."
Nahum 3:18: " Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered"
Zephaniah 2:6: "shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks."
Zephaniah 2:7: "for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down"
Zephaniah 3:13: "in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid."
Zechariah 10:2: "a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd."
Zechariah 10:3: "Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for"
Zechariah 11:3: "There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring"
Zechariah 11:4: "saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;"
Zechariah 11:5: "them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not."
Zechariah 11:7: " And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two"
Zechariah 11:7: "and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock."
Zechariah 11:8: "Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed"
Zechariah 11:9: "Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest"
Zechariah 11:15: "unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd."
Zechariah 11:16: "lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off,"
Zechariah 13:7: "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith"
Zechariah 13:7: "of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand"
