Bible Dictionary: Droves

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Strong's Hebrew

5739. eder -- a flock, herd
... Word Origin from adar Definition a flock, herd NASB Word Usage droves (2), every
drove (1), flock (15), flocks (15), herd (1), herds (3). drove, flock, herd. ...
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Library

Meeting a Brother who had Been Wronged
... These he put, each drove by itself, in the care of his servants and said to
them, "Go on before me and leave a space between the droves.". ...
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Chapter xxxii
... Besides, the separate droves had to be arranged. ... Jacob does not depend on the ingenuity
of the shepherds to whom he entrusts the separate droves. ...
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The Memphite Empire
... of the Survey, pp.226- 228, Mr. Holland describes a sudden rainstorm or "sell" on
December 3, 1867, which drowned thirty persons, destroyed droves of camels ...
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Disclosure of the Monstrous Tenets of the Manichæans.
... Men of this description exist in numbers and in droves, who are kept from being
led away into these errors more by a fear grounded on religious feeling than by ...
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The First Source of Duty is Prudence, from Whence Spring Three ...
... So we see oxen delighted to be in herds, horses in droves, and especially like with
like, stags, also, in company with stags and often with men. ...
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The Exhortation of the Last HomilyIs Continued in This. ...
... For what cause withdrawest thou? Was not everything done that thou chosest? Hast
thou not taken away his flocks, his herds, his droves of horses and of mules? ...
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Goes to Housekeeping. Discussions with Mr. Maddox. Attends Meeting ...
... At certain seasons great droves of cattle and hogs were driven through it, and
everything was lively; besides, it had a good trade with the country around. ...
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A Little Jewish Maid.
... They were back again in their own country, bringing no camel-loads of plunder, no
droves of stolen cattle, no chains of weeping slaves"only two sacks of ...
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The Journey of the Three Holy Kings to Bethlehem
... run wild on our moors at home. I also saw droves of camels and animals like
them only with two humps. In one place I saw some elephants ...
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Here Beginneth the Story of Judith
... She was a fair woman and her husband had left her much riches, with plentiful meiny,
and possessions of droves of oxen and flocks of sheep, and she was a ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/here beginneth the story of.htm

Thesaurus

Droves (17 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Droves (17 Occurrences). Genesis 29:2 and he
looketh, and lo, a well in the field, and lo, there three ...
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Desolated (21 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Joel 1:18 How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For
there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated. (YLT). ...
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Crouching (8 Occurrences)
... Genesis 29:2 and he looketh, and lo, a well in the field, and lo, there three droves
of a flock crouching by it, for from that well they water the droves, and ...
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Sighed (7 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Joel 1:18 How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For
there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated. (YLT). ...
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Drown (5 Occurrences)

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Drove (89 Occurrences)
... (See RSV NIV). 1 Kings 10:28 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt;
and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price. ...
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Buying (12 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 10:28 And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the
king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price. (See JPS). ...
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Yarn (37 Occurrences)
... the Revised Version correctly renders: "And the horses which Solomon had were brought
out of Egypt; the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at ...
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Ku'e (2 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 10:28 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's
merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price. (See RSV). ...
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Keve (1 Occurrence)
... 2 Chronicles 1:16 And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; the
king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price. (See JPS). ...
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Bible Concordance

Droves (17 Occurrences)

Genesis 29:2 and he looketh, and lo, a well in the field, and lo, there three droves of a flock crouching by it, for from that well they water the droves, and the great stone 'is' on the mouth of the well.
(YLT)

Genesis 29:3 (When thither have all the droves been gathered, and they have rolled the stone from off the mouth of the well, and have watered the flock, then they have turned back the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.)
(YLT)

Genesis 29:8 And they say, 'We are not able, till that all the droves be gathered together, and they have rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and we have watered the flock.'
(YLT)

Genesis 30:40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT RSV)

Genesis 32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.'
(See NAS)

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.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 33:8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
(See NIV)

Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
(See NIV)

Exodus 12:38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
(See NIV)

1 Kings 10:28 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
(WEB ASV)

2 Chronicles 1:16 And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
(ASV)

2 Chronicles 14:15 They struck also the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 27:23 Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,
(YLT)

Isaiah 17:2 Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 6:3 Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each 'in' his own station.
(YLT)

Joel 1:18 How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated.
(YLT)

Zephaniah 2:14 And crouched in her midst have droves, Every beast of the nation, Both pelican and hedge-hog in her knobs lodge, A voice doth sing at the window, 'Destruction 'is' at the threshold, For the cedar-work is exposed.'
(YLT)

Subtopics

Droves

Related Terms

Desolated (21 Occurrences)

Crouching (8 Occurrences)

Sighed (7 Occurrences)

Drown (5 Occurrences)

Drove (89 Occurrences)

Buying (12 Occurrences)

Yarn (37 Occurrences)

Ku'e (2 Occurrences)

Keve (1 Occurrence)