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Lexicon :: Strong's G1006 - boskō

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βόσκω
Transliteration
boskō (Key)
Pronunciation
bos'-ko
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A prol. form of a primary verb, cf βιβρώσκω (G977) & βοῦς (G1016)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Trench's Synonyms: xxv. βόσκω, ποιμαίνω.

Strong’s Definitions

βόσκω bóskō, bos'-ko; a prolonged form of a primary verb (compare G977, G1016); to pasture; by extension to, fodder; reflexively, to graze:—feed, keep.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's G1006 in the following manner: feed (8x), keep (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's G1006 in the following manner: feed (8x), keep (1x).

  1. to feed

    1. portraying the duty of a Christian teacher to promote in every way the spiritual welfare of the members of the church

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βόσκω bóskō, bos'-ko; a prolonged form of a primary verb (compare G977, G1016); to pasture; by extension to, fodder; reflexively, to graze:—feed, keep.
STRONGS G1006:
βόσκω; as in Greek writings from Homer down, to feed: Mark 5:14; Luke 15:15; ἀρνία, πρόβατα, John 21:15, 17 (in a figurative discourse portraying the duty of a Christian teacher to promote in every way the spiritual welfare of the members of the church); ὁ βόσκων a herdsman: Matthew 8:33; Luke 8:34. In the passive and middle [present participle βοσκόμενος, cf. Winers Grammar, § 38, 2 note] of flocks or herds, to feed, graze: Matthew 8:30; Mark 5:11; Luke 8:32. (In Sept. for רָעָה.)
[Synonyms: βόσκειν, ποιμαίνειν: π. is the wider, β. the narrower term; the former includes oversight, the latter denotes nourishment; π. may be rendered tend, β. specifically feed. See Trench § 25; Meyer on John as above; Schmidt ch. 200.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
8:30; 8:33
Mark
5:11; 5:14
Luke
8:32; 8:34; 15:15
John
21:15; 21:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1006 matches the Greek βόσκω (boskō),
which occurs 27 times in 24 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - He said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 - While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12 - Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:16 - “I am seeking my brothers,” he said. “Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:16 - And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel went to their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:14 - and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture,
and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6 - The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
and a little child shall lead them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:7 - The cow and the bear shall graze;
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 - And the firstborn of the poor will graze,
and the needy lie down in safety;
but I will kill your root with famine,
and your remnant it will slay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 - And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:17 - He has cast the lot for them;
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:9 - saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’
to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’
They shall feed along the ways;
on all bare heights shall be their pasture;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:10 - “Hear the word of the LORD, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:3 - You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:13 - And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:14 - I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:15 - I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:16 - I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy.[fn] I will feed them in justice.
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