Strong's Hebrew · H5739
עֵדֶר
ʻêder · ay'-der
Definitionan arrangement, i.e. muster (of animals)
Derivationfrom H5737 (עֲדַר);
KJV usagedrove, flock, herd.
Occurrences39 in the KJV · 34 verses
עֵדֶר in Scripture
Genesis 29:2
And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well' s mouth.
Genesis 29:3
And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well' s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well' s mouth in his place.
Genesis 29:8
And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well' s mouth; then we water the sheep.
Genesis 30:40
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban' s cattle.
Genesis 32:16
And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
Genesis 32:19
And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
Judges 5:16
Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
1 Samuel 17:34
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father' s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
2 Chronicles 32:28
Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
Job 24:2
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof .
Psalms 78:52
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Proverbs 27:23
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
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