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Lexicon :: Strong's G4168 - poimnion

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ποίμνιον
Transliteration
poimnion (Key)
Pronunciation
poym'-nee-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Neuter of a presumed derivative of ποίμνη (G4167)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:499,901

Strong’s Definitions

ποίμνιον poímnion, poym'-nee-on; neuter of a presumed derivative of G4167; a flock, i.e. (figuratively) group (of believers):—flock.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G4168 in the following manner: flock (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G4168 in the following manner: flock (5x).
  1. a flock (esp.) of sheep

  2. a group of Christ's disciples

  3. bodies of Christian (churches) presided over by elders

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ποίμνιον poímnion, poym'-nee-on; neuter of a presumed derivative of G4167; a flock, i.e. (figuratively) group (of believers):—flock.
STRONGS G4168:
ποίμνιον, ποιμνίου, τό (contracted from ποιμενιον, equivalent to ποίμνη, see ποιμήν; (on the accent cf. Winers Grammar, 52; Chandler § 313 b.)), a flock (especially) of sheep: so of a group of Christ's disciples, Luke 12:32; of bodies of Christians (churches) presided over by elders (cf. references under the word ποιμήν, b.), Acts 20:28, 29; 1 Peter 5:3; with a possessive genitive added, τοῦ Θεοῦ, 1 Peter 5:2, as in Jeremiah 13:17; τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 16, 1 [ET]; 44, 3 [ET]; 54, 2 [ET]; 57, 2 [ET]. (Herodotus, Sophicles, Euripides, Plato, Lucian, others; the Sept. chiefly for עֵדֶר and צֹאן.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Jeremiah
13:17
Luke
12:32
Acts
20:28; 20:29
1 Corinthians
16; 16:1
1 Peter
5:2; 5:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4168 matches the Greek ποίμνιον (poimnion),
which occurs 68 times in 64 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 29:2–Jer 31:24)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they gave water to the flocks to drink. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - And all the flocks would be gathered there, and they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and give water to the sheep to drink and return the stone back to its place on the mouth of the well.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - And Jacob separated the lambs, and he [fn]made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he set his own herds apart and did not set them with Laban’s flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:16 - And he gave them into the hand of his servants, every flock by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on before me and put a space between flocks.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:19 - Then he commanded also the second and the third and all those who followed the flocks, saying, “After this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - “And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, [fn]in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 -

“Blessed shall be the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and the [fn]produce of your ground and the [fn]offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18 -

“Cursed shall be the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and the [fn]produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - “Moreover, it shall eat the [fn]offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also will not allow grain, new wine, or oil, and the increase of your herd or the young of your flock to remain for you until they have caused you to perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - So they would camp against them and ruin the produce of the earth [fn]as far as Gaza and leave no sustenance in Israel as well as no sheep, ox, or donkey.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:17 - “He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:32 - So the people [fn]rushed greedily upon the spoil, and they took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and they were not willing to devote them to destruction; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - But Samuel said, “What then is this sound of the sheep in my ears and the sound of the oxen which I am hearing?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; but the rest we have devoted to destruction.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - “But the people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God at Gilgal.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are these all the young men?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is shepherding the sheep.” Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and [fn]bring him, for we will not turn around until he comes here.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:19 - So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David who is with the flock.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - But David said to Saul, “Your servant was shepherding his father’s sheep. And a lion and a bear would come and take a lamb from the flock,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:3 - And he came to the sheepfolds on the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to [fn]relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the inner recesses of the cave.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:2 -

Now there was a man in Maon whose work was in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and one thousand goats. And it happened, while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4 - that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16 - “They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them shepherding the sheep.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9 - And David struck the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive, and he took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:20 - And David took all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of [fn]the other livestock, and they said, “This is David’s spoil.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:2 -

“The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4 -

“Now a visitor came to the rich man,

And he [fn]was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd,

To prepare for the traveler who had come to him;

Rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:27 - Now the sons of Israel were mustered and were provided for and went to meet them; and the sons of Israel camped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Arameans filled the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:17 - So he said,

“I saw all Israel

Scattered on the mountains,

Like sheep which have no shepherd.

And Yahweh said,

‘These have no master.

Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:7 - “So now, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28 - storehouses also for the produce of grain, wine, and oil, stalls for all kinds of cattle, and [fn]sheepfolds for the flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:36 - and to bring to the house of our God the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks as it is written in the law, for the priests who are ministering in the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:2 -

[fn]Some move the boundaries;

They seize and [fn]devour flocks.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:9 -

“I shall take no young bull out of your house

Nor male goats out of your folds.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:52 -

But He led forth His own people like sheep

And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:70 -

He also chose David His servant

And took him from the sheepfolds;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:23 -

Know well the [fn]condition of your flocks,

And pay attention to your herds;

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:7 - I bought male and female slaves, and I had [fn]homeborn slaves. Also I possessed flocks and herds larger than all who preceded me in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:8 -

[fn]If you yourself do not know,

Most beautiful among women,

Go forth on the trail of the flock

And pasture your young goats

By the dwellings of the shepherds.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:2 -

“The cities [fn]of Aroer are forsaken;

They will be for flocks, and they will lie down in them;

And there will be no one to cause them to tremble.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 -

For the fortified city is isolated,

A [fn]haunt [fn]forlorn and forsaken like the desert;

There the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and [fn]feed on its twigs.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:11 -

Like a shepherd He will shepherd His flock;

In His arm He will gather the lambs

And carry them in His bosom;

He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:10 -

“Sharon will be a pasture land for flocks,

And the valley of Achor a resting place for herds,

For My people who seek Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:3 -

“Shepherds and their flocks will come to her;

They will pitch their tents [fn]around her;

They will pasture each in his [fn]place.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:18 -

“Therefore hear, O nations,

And know, O congregation, what is among them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:17 -

But if you will not listen to it,

My soul will cry in secret for such pride;

And my eyes will bitterly weep

And flow down with tears

Because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:20 -

“Lift up your eyes and see

Those coming from the north.

Where is the flock that was given you,

Your beautiful sheep?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:10 -

Hear the word of Yahweh, O nations,

And declare in the coastlands far away,

And say, “He who dispersed Israel will gather him

And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:24 -

“And Judah and all its cities will inhabit it together, the farmer and they who go about with flocks.


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