boskō · feed, tend

What it means

boskō (βόσκω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “feed, tend”.

(a flock).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To look after a flock; also of animals, eat in the field.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Feed ×3
• feeding ×3
• were tending them ×2
• tended ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×2
• Luke×3
• John×2

• Matthew 8:30

  Now at a distance from them there was a herd of many pigs feeding.

• Matthew 8:33

  And those who were tending them fled, and going away into the town, they reported everything, including what had happened to those possessed by demons.

• Mark 5:11

  Now there was there on the mountainside a large herd of pigs feeding;

• Mark 5:14

  And those who tended them fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside; and people came to see what it was that had happened.

• Luke 8:32

  Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the hillside; and they begged him to permit them to enter into them; and he permitted them.

• Luke 8:34

  And when those who were tending them saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside.

• Luke 15:15

  And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

• John 21:15

  So when they had had breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He says to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I hold you dear.” He says to him, “Feed my lambs.”

• John 21:17

  He says to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you hold me dear?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you hold me dear?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I hold you dear.” Jesus says to him, “Feed my sheep.