UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: ποίμνη; -ης

Related lemmas: ποιμαίνω

Sense 1: flock

Semantic entry: 4.28

Semantic domains: Animals

Subdomains: Animals

Definition: a collective for a group of sheep πρόβατον and/or goats αἴγειος

Notes: In instances in which the reference is to a flock of sheep or goats, one can normally employ a designation for any group of animals, though there are often distinct terms for groups of domesticated animals in contrast with groups of wild animals. And in many languages there are a number of different terms for such groupings of animals depending upon the particular animals in question, for example, in English swarm, school, drove, pack, and bevy.

Further resources: fauna:2.31.1

MAT 26:31: RV MAT 26:31 · LV MAT 26:31 · Read together MAT 26:31

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OET-RV MAT 26:31

31 Then Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) told them, “All of you will flounder tonight concerning me, because it’s been written, ‘I’ll strike the shepherd and the flock will be scattered.’

OET-LV MAT 26:31

31 Then the Yaʸsous is _saying to _them:
All of _you _all will _be _being _stumbled in me at the this night, because/for it _has _been _written:
I _will _be _striking the shepherd, and the sheep of _the flock will _be _being _scattered.

LUK 2:8: RV LUK 2:8 · LV LUK 2:8 · Read together LUK 2:8

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OET-RV LUK 2:8

8 In that same area, there were some shepherds staying out in the fields where they kept watch over their flocks at night.

OET-LV LUK 2:8

8 And shepherds were in the the same region, lodging _in _the _fields and keeping watch the by _night over the flock of _them.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 26:31 · LV MAT 26:31 · Read together MAT 26:31

LUK: RV LUK 2:8 · LV LUK 2:8 · Read together LUK 2:8

CO1: RV CO1 9:7 · LV CO1 9:7 · Read together CO1 9:7

Sense 2: people who are like a flock

Semantic entry: 11.31

Semantic domains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes

Subdomains: Socio-Religious

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of ποίμνη[a] ‘flock,’ 4.28: ποίμνη) the followers of Christ constituting a well-defined membership group

Notes: It is often impossible to reproduce the figurative values of ἀρνίον [source selector 000001][b] (11.29: ἀρνίον), πρόβατον [source selector 000001][b] (11.30: πρόβατον), ποίμνιον, and ποίμνη[b], since such metaphors cannot be employed in areas of the world in which sheep serve primarily as scavengers around villages (something which is generally true in many parts of the tropics). It may be possible in some instances to preserve something of the metaphorical value of these four terms by translating in some such manner as ‘take care of my people as you would sheep’ or ‘take care of my people, who are like sheep,’ or ‘take care of my helpless people,’ but frequently one can only translate as ‘take care of my people.’

Further resources: fauna:2.31.1

JHN 10:16: RV JHN 10:16 · LV JHN 10:16 · Read together JHN 10:16

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OET-RV JHN 10:16

16 I also have other sheep which are not in this field and it’s appropriate for me to bring those other sheep also, then they’ll be hearing my voice because there’ll be just one flock with one shepherd.

OET-LV JHN 10:16

16 And I _am _having other sheep, which is not of this the field, it _is _fitting me to _bring also _those, and they _will _be _hearing of _the voice of _me, and they _will _be _becoming one flock with _one, shepherd.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ποίμνη

Form 1

Sense 1: flock

Sense 2: people who are like a flock