Bible Encyclopedia: Shepherd: Figurative

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Greek

4165. poimaino -- to act as a shepherd
... [4165 ("to shepherd, tend") occurs 11 times in the NT, usually with a figurative
sense of " () God's flock." This provides Spirit-directed () conjunction with ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4165.htm - 8k

Library

Introduction.
... marks and characteristics of the shepherd's life and duties. The oriental languages,
like the people who speak them, are exceedingly figurative and poetic in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/callan/the shepherd of my soul/introduction.htm

The Shepherd King of Israel
... preceding verse are not in themselves the end of our Shepherd's guidance; they ... Here
is the figurative expression of the great evangelical principle, that works ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/the shepherd king of israel.htm

The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... usage, to a word or sentence turned from its literal signification to a figurative
sense. ... of Isaiah (chap.5:1-7); so also that of the good shepherd (John 10:1 ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

Love and Service.
... Confining ourselves to the figurative expression which the Saviour uses, it
unquestionably ... The shepherd's care takes in both of these parts; therefore the Lord ...
/.../schleiermacher/selected sermons of schleiermacher/xi love and service.htm

Of the Parables of the Lost Ewe and the Lost Drachma.
... upon your cups come forward to show whether even in them the figurative meaning
of ... flock' is the people of the Church, [782] and the good shepherd' is Christ ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/on modesty/chapter vii of the parables of.htm

Vehicles of Revelation; Scripture, the Church, Tradition.
... In c. Gent.2, 3, he treats the account of Eden and the Fall as figurative. ... and Tobit,
as well as what is called the Teaching of the Apostles and the Shepherd. ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/section 4 vehicles of revelation.htm

Then He Ends the Book with an Exposition of the Divine and Human ...
... save for the planting of those who are rooted in Him, nor a shepherd, had not ... on
the fact that the title "Son" is not interpreted in the same figurative way as ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 7 then he ends.htm

The Sin-Bearer.
... were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop ... Had
the sorrow been figurative, the sin-bearing might have been mythical; but the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/till he come/the sin-bearer.htm

The Extent of Messiah's Spiritual Kingdom
... Yet it must be allowed, that the highly figurative language in which many of these ...
same purpose, the Prophet Ezekiel: And I will set up one Shepherd over them ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 2/sermon xxxvii the extent of.htm

Of the Section Where it is Recorded, that Being Moved with ...
... on them, because they were troubled and prostrate, [962] as sheep having no shepherd. ...
with a literal import, and others of them with a figurative, although the ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter xxx of the section where.htm

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Genesis 49:24
But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
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Subtopics

Shepherd

Shepherd of Christ

Shepherd of God's Care

Shepherd of Prophets, Priests, Levites, and Civil Authorities

Shepherd was an Abomination to the Egyptians

Shepherd: A Name Given to Cyrus

Shepherd: A Name Given to Jesus

Shepherd: Abel

Shepherd: Angels Appeared To

Shepherd: Causes the Flock to Rest

Shepherd: Counts the Flock