eder · herd, flock

What it means

eder (עֵדֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “herd, flock”.

Drove.

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. A group of sheep or cattle.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• flock ×16
• flocks ×14
• herd ×5
• herds ×3
• drove ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×10
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×5
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×2
• Micah×3
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 29:2

  He looked, and look, a well in the field, and look, there three flocks of sheep were lying beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the mouth of the well was large.

• Genesis 29:3

  When all the flocks were gathered there, they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put back the stone on the mouth of the well in its place.

• Genesis 29:8

  They said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and he turned the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the dark in the flock of Laban; and he made for himself flocks by themselves and did not put them with the flock of Laban.

• Genesis 32:16

  He put them in the hand of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

• Genesis 32:19

  He commanded also the second, also the third, and also all who were going after the herds, saying, “According to this word you shall speak to Esau when you find him.

• Judges 5:16

  Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, to listen to the whistling for the flocks? In the divisions of Reuben great were the searchings of heart.

• 1 Samuel 17:34

  David said to Saul, “Your servant used to be a shepherd for his father with the flock; and when the lion came, or the bear, and carried off a lamb from the drove,

• 2 Chronicles 32:28

  and storehouses for the produce of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of livestock, and flocks for the folds.

• Job 24:2

  They move boundary markers; they seize a flock and pasture it.

• Psalms 78:52

  And he made his people set out like sheep, and drove them like a flock in the wilderness.

• Proverbs 27:23

  Know well the condition of your flock; set your heart on the herds;

• Song of Songs 1:7

  Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?

• Song of Songs 4:1

  Look, you are beautiful, my companion; look, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves behind your veil; your hair is like a flock of goats that ripple down from Mount Gilead.

• Song of Songs 4:2

  Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and none is barren among them.

• Song of Songs 6:5

  Turn away your eyes from me, for they unsettle me; your hair is like a flock of goats that ripple down from Gilead.

• Song of Songs 6:6

  Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and none is barren among them.

• Isaiah 17:2

  The cities of Aroer are abandoned; they will be for flocks, and they will lie down with no one to make them afraid.

• Isaiah 32:14

  For the palace is forsaken, the tumult of the city deserted; the Ophel and the watchtower have become caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

• Isaiah 40:11

  Like a shepherd he will tend his flock; with his arm he will gather the lambs, and in his bosom he will carry them; those that are nursing he will lead gently.

• Jeremiah 6:3

  To her shepherds will come with their flocks; they will pitch tents against her all around; they will graze, each his own portion.

• Jeremiah 13:17

  But if you do not hear it, in secret places my soul will weep because of pride, and will weep bitterly, and my eye will run down with tears, for the flock of YHWH has been taken captive.

• Jeremiah 13:20

  Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, the sheep of your beauty?

• Jeremiah 31:10

  Hear the word of YHWH, nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away, and say: ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and he will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

• Jeremiah 31:24

  And Judah and all its cities will live in it together, farmers and those who move about with the flock.

• Jeremiah 51:23

  and I will shatter with you shepherd and his flock; and I will shatter with you farmer and his team; and I will shatter with you governors and prefects.

• Ezekiel 34:12

  As a shepherd looks after his herd on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so I will look after my sheep, and I will deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of cloud and thick cloud.

• Joel 1:18

  How the livestock groan! The herds of cattle wander confused, for there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.

• Micah 2:12

  I will surely gather Jacob, all of you; I will surely assemble the remnant of Israel; together I will set them like sheep in the fold, like a flock in the midst of its pasture; they will make an uproar because of human beings.

• Micah 4:8

  And you, tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, and the former dominion will come, the kingdom for the daughter of Jerusalem.”

• Micah 5:8

  And 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, if it passes through, tramples and tears, and there is no one to deliver.

• Zephaniah 2:14

  And flocks will lie down in her midst, every animal of the nations; both the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge in her capitals; a voice will sing in the window; dryness will be on the threshold; for her cedar work has been laid bare.

• Zechariah 10:3

  “Against the shepherds my anger has burned, and the male goats I will call to account; for YHWH Tsevaot has attended to his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his horse of majesty in battle.

• Malachi 1:14

  And cursed be the deceiver who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to Adonai something damaged; for a great King I am, says YHWH Tsevaot, and my name is fearsome among the nations.

And 5 more times.