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H7462Hebrew

רָעָה

Definition and meaning

ra`ah (raw-aw') v. 1. to tend a flock i.e. pasture it 2. (intransitively, literally or figuratively) to graze 3. (generally) to rule 4. (by extension) to associate with (as a friend) [a primitive root] KJV: X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.

Tagged KJV passages

144 matching verses - 173.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Numbers 14:33

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Matched English: wander
Numbers 27:17

Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

Matched English: shepherd
Judges 14:20

But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Matched English: friend
1 Samuel 16:11

And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.

Matched English: keepeth
1 Samuel 17:15

But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

Matched English: feed
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:

Matched English: kept
1 Samuel 17:40

And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

Matched English: shepherd's
1 Samuel 21:7

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.

Matched English: herdmen
1 Samuel 25:7

And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

Matched English: shepherds
1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

Matched English: keeping
2 Samuel 5:2

Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

Matched English: feed
2 Samuel 7:7

In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

Matched English: feed
1 Kings 22:17

And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.

Matched English: shepherd
2 Kings 10:12

And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,

Matched English: shearing
1 Chronicles 11:2

And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.

Matched English: feed
1 Chronicles 17:6

Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?

Matched English: feed
1 Chronicles 27:29

And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:

Matched English: fed
2 Chronicles 18:16

Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.

Matched English: shepherd
Job 1:14

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

Matched English: feeding
Job 24:2

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

Matched English: feed
Job 24:21

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

Matched English: entreateth
Psalms 23:1

A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Matched English: shepherd
Psalms 28:9

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

Matched English: feed
Psalms 37:3

Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Matched English: fed