Nôqêd — H5349

Definition

masculine noun

a spotter (of sheep or cattle), i.e. the owner or tender (who thus marks them)

1. sheep-raiser, sheep-dealer, sheep-tender

Usually translated as

sheepmaster, herdman

Origin

active participle from the same as H5348

• Same as Nâqôd (H5348)

Occurrences

Nôqêd occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (1), Amos (1)

• 2 Kings 3:4 — And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster (נֹקֵ֑ד), and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
• Amos 1:1 — The words of Amos, who was among (בַנֹּקְדִ֖ים) 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.