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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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 17 times in 15 verses in '1Sa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:17 - “He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:32

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:9

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:14

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?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:15

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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:21

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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:11

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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:19 - So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David who is with the flock.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:34

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,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:3

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4 - that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:16

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:9

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:20

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.”
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