Thus saith the Lord my God; feed the flock of the slaughter;
The 1611 reading
Thus saith the LORD my God; Feede the flocke of the slaughter;
KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To give or take food; to nourish, tend, or graze. Sense 2: Food for animals.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 25:30
Complete exact-word concordance
Thus saith the Lord my God; feed the flock of the slaughter;
Thus saith the LORD my God; Feede the flocke of the slaughter;
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
And I will feede the flocke of slaughter, euen you, O poore of the flock: and I tooke vnto me two staues; the one I called Beautie, and the other I called Bandes, and I fed the flocke.
1611 marginal noteOr, verily the poore.
1611 marginal noteOr, binders.
Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
Then said I, I will not feede you: that that dieth, let it die: and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let the rest eate, euery one the flesh of another.
1611 marginal noteHebr. of his fellow or neighbour.
1611 marginal noteIer.15.2.
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
For loe, I wil raise vp a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that bee cut off, neither shall seeke the yong one, nor heale that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shal eate the flesh of the fat, and teare their clawes in pieces.
1611 marginal noteOr, hidden.
1611 marginal noteOr, beare.
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