Strong’s H5349 · Hebrew
נֹקֵד
nôqêd · no-kade'
Origin active participle from the same as נָקֹד (H5348);
Meaning a spotter (of sheep or cattle), i.e. the owner or tender (who thus marks them)
In the King James Version herdman, sheepmaster.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Kings 3:4And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
- Amos 1:1The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.