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• בּוֹקֵר

hûrdz´man ( בּרקר , bōḳer ; the King James Version, the English Revised Version "herdman"): A cowherd ( Amos 7:14 ). The same word is used in Syria today. רעה , rō‛eh , has its equivalent in the language of Syria and Palestine (Arabic ra‛i ), and is a general term for any kind of a herdsman (Genesis 13:7 , Genesis 13:8; Genesis 26:20; 1 Samuel 21:7 ). נקד , nōḳēdh , occurs in one passage (Amos 1:1 ); literally it means one who spots or marks the sheep, hence, a herdsman. Spotting the wool with different dyes is still the method of distinguishing between the sheep of different flocks. The herdsman is seldom the owner of the sheep, but a hireling. See SHEEP; SHEEP TENDING .