Genesis 37:12
Shechem <07927> [in Shechem.]
Genesis 29:9
Rachel <07354> [Rachel.]
tending <07462> [for she kept them.]
In those primitive times, a pastoral life was not only considered useful but honourable: nor was it beneath the dignity of the daughters of the most opulent chiefs to carry water from the well, or tend the sheep. Jacob, Moses, and David were shepherds.
Genesis 37:16
looking <01245> [seek.]
tell ... where <05046 0375> [tell me.]
Genesis 41:2
coming up <05927> [there came.]
reeds <0260> [a meadow.]
Or, rather, "on, or among the reeds or sedges;" for so {achoo} is generally supposed to denote (see Job 8:11); so called, according to Mr. Parkhurst, from its fitness for making ropes, or the like, to connect or join things together, from {achah,} to join, connect: thus the Latin {juncus,} a bulrush, {a jungendo,} from joining, for the same reason. He supposes it to be that sort of reed growing near the Nile which Hasselquist describes as "having scarce any branches, but numerous leaves, which are narrow, smooth, channelled on the upper surface, and the plant about eleven feet high. The Egyptians make ropes of the leaves."
Genesis 41:18
Genesis 4:2
Abel Abel <01893> [Abel. Heb. Hebel. And Abel.]
care <07462> [a keeper. Heb. a feeder.]
cultivated <05647> [tiller.]
Genesis 29:7
Since <02005> [Lo.]
day <01419 03117> [it is yet high day. Heb. yet the day is great.]
Genesis 30:36
Genesis 36:24
discovered <04672> [found.]
Genesis 37:13
<03212> [come.]
[Here am I.]
Genesis 46:32
shepherds <07462> [shepherds.]
livestock <04735> [their trade hath been to feed cattle. Heb. they are men of cattle.]
brought <0935> [and they.]
Genesis 47:3
occupation <04639> [What is.]
care <07462> [shepherds.]
Genesis 48:15
blessed <01288> [blessed.]
walked <01980> [did walk.]
shepherd .... life <07462 05750> [fed me.]
Genesis 49:24
bow <07198> [his bow.]
skillful <06339> [were made.]
Mighty One <046> [the mighty.]
Shepherd <07462> [the shepherd.]
Rock <068> [the stone.]
Genesis 30:31
Genesis 37:2
account <08435> [the generations.]
{Toledoth,} the history, narrative, or account of the lives and actions of Jacob and his sons; for in this general sense the original must be taken, as in the whole ensuing history there is no genealogy of Jacob's family.
wives <0802> [wives.]
bad report <01681 07451> [evil report.]
Genesis 46:34
servants <05650> [Thy servants.]
care <07462> [for every.]
From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call {hycassos,} or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians.
