רֹעִי
roi · shepherd
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7473 · appears 11 times in the Bible
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roi (רֹעִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shepherd”.
One who tends the flock.
How to say it
roi
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
- One who tends livestock; or leads the people.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- herdsmen ×6
- shepherd ×4
- shepherds ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 13:7
So there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living then in the land.
- Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are men, brothers.
- Genesis 26:20
The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they had contended with him.
- 1 Samuel 21:7
Now there was a man of the servants of Saul on that day, detained before YHWH; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of the shepherds who belonged to Saul.
- Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling has been pulled up and removed from me like a tent of a shepherd; I have rolled up like the weaver my life; from the threads of the loom he will cut me off; from day to night you will make an end of me.
- Isaiah 44:28
who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd, and all my desire he will fulfill,’ saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”
- Zechariah 11:17
Woe to the shepherd who is worth nothing, who abandons the sheep! A sword on his arm and on his right eye; his arm will completely wither, and his right eye will utterly grow dim.”
- Zechariah 13:7
Sword, awake against my shepherd, and against the man who is my neighbor, declares YHWH Tsevaot. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
And 3 more times.