מִרְעֶה
mir.eh (H4829)
pasture
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# The Hebrew Word for Pasture: מִרְעֶה (Mir'eh) The Hebrew word *mir'eh* translates simply as "pasture"—a place where livestock graze. This noun appears 13 times throughout the Hebrew Bible, making it a moderately common term for a specific agricultural reality in ancient Israelite life. The word refers to the grassy or vegetated land that supported the pastoral economy central to early Israelite society, where sheep, goats, and cattle were essential to survival and wealth. Given its 13 occurrences, *mir'eh* functioned as a practical vocabulary item for describing a concrete physical reality rather than an abstract concept. Its limited frequency suggests it was used when the specific designation of grazing land was semantically important to the biblical authors—whether describing actual pastures, their quality, or their availability. The term appears straightforward in meaning without apparent figurative extensions, making it a reliable indicator of pastoral activity and land use in biblical texts.
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They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.
These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
I will feed them with good pasture; and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on fat pasture on the mountains of Israel.
Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?
How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?