νέμω
graze, pasture
Where this word appears
Every passage where νέμω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 18 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 36:24 νέμω And these are the sons of Sebegon; Aie, and Ana; this is the Ana who found Jamin in the wilderness, when he tended the beasts of his father Sebegon.
- Genesis 41:3 νέμω And other seven cows came up after these out of the river, ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, and fed by the other cows on the bank of the river.
- Genesis 41:18 νέμω and there came up as it were out of the river, seven cows well-favoured and choice-fleshed, and they fed on the sedge.
- Exodus 34:3 νέμω And let no one go up with you, nor be seen in all the mountain; and let not the sheep and oxen feed near that mountain.
- Numbers 14:33 νέμω And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.
- 1 Samuel 21:8 νέμω And David said to Abimelech, See if there is here under your hand spear or sword, for I have not brought in my hand my sword or my weapons, for the word of the king was urgent.
- Song of Solomon 4:5 νέμω Your two breasts are as two twin fawns, that feed among the lilies.
- Jeremiah 27:19 νέμω And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.
- Ezekiel 19:7 νέμω And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.
- Ezekiel 34:18 νέμω And is it not enough for you that you⌃ fed on the good pasture, that you⌃ trampled with your feet the remnant of your pasture? and that you⌃ drank the standing water, that you⌃ disturbed the residue with your feet?
- Ezekiel 34:19 νέμω So my sheep fed on that which you⌃ had trampled with your feet; and they drank the water that had been disturbed by your feet.
- Daniel 4:8 νέμω The tree grew large and strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its extent to the extremity of the whole earth:
- Hosea 4:16 νέμω For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
- Jonah 3:7 νέμω And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king an by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.
- Micah 7:14 νέμω Tend your people with your rod, the sheep of your inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Basan, and in the land of Galaad, as in the days of old.
- Zephaniah 2:7 νέμω And the sea cost shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda; they shall pasture upon them in the houses of Ascalon; they shall rest in the evening because of the children of Juda; for the Lord their God has visited them, and he will turn away their captivity.
- Zephaniah 2:14 νέμω And flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the midst thereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts shall cry in the breaches thereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness was as as cedar.
- Zephaniah 3:13 νέμω and the remnant of Israel shall fear the name of the Lord, and shall do no iniquity, neither shall they speak vanity; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and lie down, and there shall be none to terrify them.
About this word
About this word
νέμω (némō), “graze, pasture,” 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 18 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 →