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Lexicon :: Strong's G4165 - poimainō

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ποιμαίνω
Transliteration
poimainō (Key)
Pronunciation
poy-mah'-ee-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:485,901

Trench's Synonyms: xxv. βόσκω, ποιμαίνω.

Strong’s Definitions

ποιμαίνω poimaínō, poy-mah'-ee-no; from G4166; to tend as a shepherd of (figuratively, superviser):—feed (cattle), rule.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G4165 in the following manner: feed (6x), rule (4x), feed cattle (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G4165 in the following manner: feed (6x), rule (4x), feed cattle (1x).

  1. to feed, to tend a flock, keep sheep

    1. to rule, govern

      1. of rulers

      2. to furnish pasture for food

      3. to nourish

      4. to cherish one's body, to serve the body

      5. to supply the requisites for the soul's need

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ποιμαίνω poimaínō, poy-mah'-ee-no; from G4166; to tend as a shepherd of (figuratively, superviser):—feed (cattle), rule.
STRONGS G4165:
ποιμαίνω; future ποιμανῶ; 1 aorist imperative 2 person plural ποιμάνατε (1 Peter 5:2); (ποιμήν, which see); from Homer down; the Sept. for רָעָה; to feed, to tend a flock, keep sheep;
a. properly: Luke 17:7; ποίμνην, 1 Corinthians 9:7.
b. tropically,
α. to rule, govern: of rulers, τινα, Matthew 2:6; Revelation 2:27; Revelation 12:5; Revelation 19:15 (2 Samuel 5:2; Micah 5:6 (Micah 5:5); Micah 7:14, etc.; (cf. Winers Grammar, 17)) (see ποιμήν, b. at the end); of the overseers (pastors) of the church, John 21:16; Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 5:2.
β. to furnish pasturage or food; to nourish: ἑαυτόν, to cherish one's body, to serve the body, Jude 1:12; to supply the requisites for the soul's needs (R. V. shall be their shepherd), Revelation 7:17. (Synonym: see βόσκω, at the end.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Samuel
5:2
Micah
5:5; 5:6; 7:14
Matthew
2:6
Luke
17:7
John
21:16
Acts
20:28
1 Corinthians
9:7
1 Peter
5:2; 5:2
Jude
1:12
Revelation
2:27; 7:17; 12:5; 19:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4165 matches the Greek ποιμαίνω (poimainō),
which occurs 50 times in 48 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.” “Very well,” he replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16 - Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16 - Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:2 - In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the LORD said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:7 - Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” ’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:2 - In the past, even while Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the LORD your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:6 - Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders[fn] whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:9 - You will break them with a rod of iron[fn]; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:1 - A psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:9 - Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:3 - Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:14 - For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:71

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:71 - from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:72

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:72 - And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:11 - One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:7 - A discerning son heeds instruction, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:3 - A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:7 - Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:8 - Friends: If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the shepherds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:16 - She: My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2 - She: My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:3 - I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:11 - He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:5 - Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:15 - Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:3 - Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents around her, each tending his own portion.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:18 - Therefore hear, you nations; you who are witnesses, observe what will happen to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:22 - The wind will drive all your shepherds away, and your allies will go into exile. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced because of all your wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:2 - Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:4 - I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:23 - I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:5 - I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:4 - He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:6 - who will rule[fn] the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with drawn sword.[fn] He will deliver us from the Assyrians when they invade our land and march across our borders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:14 - Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands.[fn] Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:4 - This is what the LORD my God says: “Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:7 - So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter, particularly the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:9 - and said, “I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish. Let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:17 - “Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered, his right eye totally blinded!”
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