נֹקֵדnôqêd
sheep-raiser, -dealer, or -tender (2 Kings 3:4; Amos 1:1; Amos 7:14)
Pronunciation: no-kade' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5349
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 3:4 King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. He used to pay the king of Israel an annual tribute of 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.
- Amos 1:1 This message was given to Amos, a shepherd from the town of Tekoa in Judah. He received this message in visions two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash, was king of Israel.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).