ποιμήν
poimēn
“shepherd”
Definition
a shepherd (literally or figuratively)
of uncertain affinity;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
G:N-M
Greek Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
ποιμήν appears 17 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
But the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
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