רָעָה
râʻâh · raw-aw'
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
- to tend a flock
- i.e. pasture it
- intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively)
- generally, to rule
- by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, [phrase] shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Letters
- 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)
the head, the highest › to see and know › to reveal, behold
The head, the highest that works to see and know that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָעָה 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
177 occurrences · 177 OT · 0 NT · 127 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- feed12 · 17%
- and feed6 · 8%
- to feed5 · 7%
- shepherd4 · 6%
- shall feed4 · 6%
- of the shepherds4 · 6%
- i will feed3 · 4%
- shepherds3 · 4%
- kept2 · 3%
- are shepherds2 · 3%
- and the shepherds2 · 3%
- and they fed2 · 3%
- and who is that shepherd2 · 3%
- feedeth2 · 3%
- fed2 · 3%
- as a shepherd2 · 3%
- they shall feed2 · 3%
- he shall feed2 · 3%
- of shepherds2 · 3%
- against the shepherds2 · 3%
- and the herdmen2 · 3%
- because there was no shepherd2 · 3%
- i pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen1 · 1%
- between the herdmen1 · 1%
- was a keeper1 · 1%
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.