Lexical Summary poimnion: a flock Original Word: ποίμνιονTransliteration: poimnion Phonetic Spelling: (poym'-nee-on) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a flock Meaning: a flock Strong's Concordance flock. Neuter of a presumed derivative of poimne; a flock, i.e. (figuratively) group (of believers) -- flock. see GREEK poimne Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4168: ποίμνιονποίμνιον, ποιμνίου, τό (contracted from ποιμενιον, equivalent to ποίμνη, see ποιμήν; (on the accent cf. Winers Grammar, 52; Chandler § 313 b.)), a flock (especially) of sheep: so of a group of Christ's disciples, Luke 12:32; of bodies of Christians (churches) presided over by elders (cf. references under the word ποιμήν, b.), Acts 20:28, 29; 1 Peter 5:3; with a possessive genitive added, τοῦ Θεοῦ, 1 Peter 5:2, as in Jeremiah 13:17; τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 16, 1 [ET]; 44, 3 [ET]; 54, 2 [ET]; 57, 2 [ET]. (Herodotus, Sophicles, Euripides, Plato, Lucian, others; the Sept. chiefly for עֵדֶר and צֹאן.) |
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