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Ezekiel 34

Ezek. 34:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ands they were scattered
puwts (Hebrew #6327)
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
KJV usage: break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
Pronounce: poots
Origin: a primitive root
, κbecauset there is no shepherd
ra`ah (Hebrew #7462)
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
KJV usage: X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
: and they became meat
'oklah (Hebrew #402)
food
KJV usage: consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
Pronounce: ok-law'
Origin: feminine of 401
u to all the beasts
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
of the field
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
, when they were scattered
puwts (Hebrew #6327)
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
KJV usage: break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
Pronounce: poots
Origin: a primitive root
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or, without a shepherd.

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Ezek. 34:6• 6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them. (Ezek. 34:6)
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Ezek. 33:21,28• 21And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
28For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
(Ezek. 33:21,28)
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1 Kings 22:17• 17{i}And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And Jehovah said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.{/i} (1 Kings 22:17)
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2 Chron. 18:16• 16{i}And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And Jehovah said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.{/i} (2 Chron. 18:16)
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Jer. 23:2• 2Therefore thus saith Jehovah God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people, Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 23:2)
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Jer. 50:6,17• 6My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.
17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
(Jer. 50:6,17)
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Zech. 13:7• 7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. (Zech. 13:7)
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Matt. 9:36• 36{i}But when he saw the crowds he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed, and cast away as sheep not having a shepherd.{/i} (Matt. 9:36)
because there is no shepherd.
or, without a shepherd, and sover.
and they became.
Ezek. 34:8• 8As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; (Ezek. 34:8)
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Isa. 56:9• 9All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, all ye beasts in the forest. (Isa. 56:9)
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Jer. 12:9‑12• 9Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
10Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness,
11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
12The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of Jehovah shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
(Jer. 12:9‑12)
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John 10:2• 2but he that entereth through the door is shepherd of the sheep. (John 10:2)
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Acts 20:29‑31• 29I know that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock;
30and from among your own selves shall men arise speaking things perverted to draw the disciples after them.
31Wherefore watch, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not admonishing each one night and day with tears.
(Acts 20:29‑31)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.

W. Kelly Translation

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And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.