מִרְעֶה mireh

Hebrew word for “pasture” · Strong’s H4829 · used 13 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

pasture, pasturage

How it is translated

Glosses given for mireh in context, with how often each is used:

• pasture 13

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 4 (3), Ezekiel 34 (2), Genesis 47 (1), Job 39 (1), Isaiah 32 (1), Lamentations 1 (1), Joel 1 (1), Nahum 2 (1)

Forms

• מרעה 7
• ומרעה 2
• מרעהו 1
• במרעה 1
• המרעה 1
• מרעיכם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mireh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• צֹאן tson “flock” 4
• שָׁמֵן shamen “rich” 2
• שָׁם sham “there” 4
• עֵדֶר eder “flock” 2
• מָצָא matsa “to find” 3
• טוֹב tov “pleasant” 3
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 3
• רָעָה raah “to pasture” 2
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 3
• עַד ad “till” 3
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 3
• הַר har “mountain” 2

Key verses

The verses using mireh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 47:4 — They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land…
• 1 Chronicles 4:39 — And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
• 1 Chronicles 4:40 — And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
• 1 Chronicles 4:41 — And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them…
• Job 39:8 — The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
• Isaiah 32:14 — Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture…
• Lamentations 1:6 — And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the…
• Ezekiel 34:14 — I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall…
• Ezekiel 34:18 — Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of…
• Joel 1:18 — How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
• Nahum 2:11 — Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.