ΠΟΙΜΕΝΟΣ, ποιμενος
POIMENOS, poimenos
Sounds Like: poy-MEH-nos
Translations: of a shepherd, of the shepherd
From the root: ΠΟΙΜΗΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a shepherd, someone who tends, feeds, and guards sheep. In a broader sense, it can also refer to a leader or a spiritual guide, much like a pastor or a ruler who cares for their people. This particular form is the genitive singular, indicating possession or origin, often translated as 'of a shepherd' or 'belonging to a shepherd'.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4166 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 4:95
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΙΜΗΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΟΙΜΕΝ — shepherd, a shepherd
- ΠΟΙΜΕΝΑ — shepherd, a shepherd, pastor, a pastor
- ΠΟΙΜΕΝΑΝ — shepherd, a shepherd
- ΠΟΙΜΕΝΑΣ — shepherds
- ΠΟΙΜΕΝΕΙΣ — shepherds, a shepherd, you shepherd, you tend, you rule
- ΠΟΙΜΕΝΕΣ — shepherds
- ΠΟΙΜΕΝΙ — to a shepherd, for a shepherd, by a shepherd, with a shepherd, a shepherd
- ΠΟΙΜΕΝΙΚΑ — shepherd's, pastoral, of a shepherd, a shepherd's
- ΠΟΙΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ — pastoral, of a shepherd, shepherdly
- ΠΟΙΜΕΝΩΝ — of shepherds
- ΠΟΙΜΕΣΙ — to shepherds, for shepherds, with shepherds, by shepherds
- ΠΟΙΜΕΣΙΝ — to shepherds, for shepherds, to a shepherd, for a shepherd
- ΠΟΙΜΗ — shepherd, a shepherd
- ΠΟΙΜΗΝ — shepherd, a shepherd, pastor, a pastor
- ΠΟΙΜ‾Η‾ — shepherd, a shepherd
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