מִרְעֶה
mirʻeh · meer-eh'
pasture (the place or the act); also the haunt of wild animals
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7462 (רָעָה) in the sense of feeding;
pasture (the place or the act); also the haunt of wild animals
- pasture (the place or the act)
- also, the haunt of wild animals
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: feeding place, pasture.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest › to see and know › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest that works to see and know that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִרְעֶה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
13 occurrences · 13 OT · 0 NT · 11 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- pasture5 · 38%
- have no pasture1 · 8%
- in their rooms: because there was pasture1 · 8%
- is his pasture1 · 8%
- a pasture1 · 8%
- no pasture1 · 8%
- of your pastures1 · 8%
- because they have no pasture1 · 8%
- and the feedingplace1 · 8%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.