Grow With Me
Grow With Me

מִרְעִית

mirit · pasture; flock

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4830 · appears 10 times in the Bible

What is the Strong number?Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.

What it means

mirit (מִרְעִית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pasture; flock”.

Pasturing, pasture; also the flock that someone tends.

How to say it

mi·rit

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. The meadow where the flock grazes; God's people are "the sheep of his pasture".
  2. The set of sheep a shepherd tends.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • pasture ×9
  • flock ×1

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Psalms 74:1

    A maskil of Asaph. Why, Elohim, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

  • Psalms 79:13

    And we, your people and the sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.

  • Psalms 95:7

    For he is our Elohim, and we the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,

  • Psalms 100:3

    Know that YHWH, he is Elohim; he made us, and we are his, his people and the sheep of his pasture.

  • Isaiah 49:9

    to say to the prisoners, ‘Go out,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ Along the roads they will graze, and on all the bare heights will be their pasture.

  • Jeremiah 10:21

    For the shepherds have become dull, and YHWH they have not sought; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

  • Jeremiah 23:1

    “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! declares YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 25:36

    The sound of the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the nobles of the flock! For YHWH is devastating their pasture,

  • Ezekiel 34:31

    And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, human beings you are; I am your Elohim, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

  • Hosea 13:6

    According to their pasture, they were satisfied; they were satisfied, and their heart was exalted; therefore they forgot me.