κτηνοτρόφος
cattle-herder
Where this word appears
Every passage where κτηνοτρόφος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 4:20 κτηνοτρόφος And Ada bore Jobel; he was the father of those that dwell in tents, feeding cattle.
- Genesis 46:32 κτηνοτρόφος And the men are shepherds; for they have been feeders of cattle, and they have brought with them their cattle, and their kine, and all their property.
- Genesis 46:34 κτηνοτρόφος You⌃ shall say, We your servants are herdsmen from our youth until now, both we and our fathers: that you⌃ may dwell in the land of Gesem of Arabia, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
- Numbers 32:4 κτηνοτρόφος the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and your servants have cattle.
About this word
About this word
κτηνοτρόφος (ktēnotróphos), “cattle-herder,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
