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Sheep pen

Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects

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Comments: Sheep enclosure at Nazareth Village

 

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Comments: Sheep in a Pen At Low Carlingill

 

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Comments: Sheep pens on the Butser Ancient Farm

 

From Easton: Sheep-fold - a strong fenced enclosure for the protection of the sheep gathered within it (Numbers 32:24; 1 Chronicles 17:7; Psalms 50:9; Psalms 78:70). In John 10:16 the Authorized Version renders by "fold" two distinct Greek words, aule and poimne, the latter of which properly means a "flock," and is so rendered in the Revised Version. (See also Matthew 26:31; Luke 2:8; 1 Corinthians 9:7.) (See FOLD

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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​s/sheep-pen.html. 2024.