The word in Scripture

Herd in the Bible

The word herd appears 22 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A herd is a gathered company of cattle under their keeper. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What herd means in the Bible

A herd is a gathered company of cattle under their keeper.

Where the word herd appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word herd appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.”Genesis 18:7

“All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.”Deuteronomy 15:19

“Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.”Deuteronomy 16:2

“Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.”Jeremiah 31:12

“And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:”Jonah 3:7

“So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.”Matthew 8:31

“Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.”Mark 5:11

“And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.”Luke 8:32