gedera · sheep pen

What it means

gedera (גְּדֵרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sheep pen”.

Pen: an enclosure for keeping the 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. A stone wall that encloses and protects a place.
2. A stone enclosure where sheep are penned.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sheep pens ×2
• Gederah ×1
• among the enclosures ×1
• fence ×1
• fences ×1
• folds ×1
• pens ×1
• sheepfolds ×1
• wall ×1
• walls ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Numbers 32:16

  They came near to him and said, “We will build sheep pens here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.

• Numbers 32:24

  Build for yourselves cities for your little ones and pens for your sheep, and what has come out of your mouth do.”

• Numbers 32:36

  Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and sheep pens.

• 1 Samuel 24:3

  He came to the sheepfolds by the road, and there was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.

• 1 Chronicles 4:23

  These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; with the king, in his work, they lived there.

• Psalms 89:40

  You have broken through all his fences; you have made his strongholds a ruin.

• Jeremiah 49:3

  Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Gird on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the enclosures; for their king will go into exile, his priests and his princes together.

• Ezekiel 42:12

  And according to the entrances of the chambers that were toward the south there was an entrance at the head of the way, the way in front of the corresponding fence, toward the east, as one enters them.

• Hosea 2:6

  Therefore, look, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I will build her wall, and she will not find her paths.

• Nahum 3:17

  Your guards are like the locust, and your officials like a swarm of grasshoppers that camp in the walls on a day of cold; the sun rises, and they flee, and their place is not known; where are they?

• Zephaniah 2:6

  And the strip of the sea will become pastures, meadows for shepherds, and folds for sheep.