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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Pastures

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Pasture

P'ASTURE, noun [Latin pasco, pastum, to feed.]

1. Grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

2. Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food or cattle. The farmer has a hundred acres of pasture It is sometimes called pasture-land.

3. Human culture; education. [Not used.]

Common of pasture is the right of feeding cattle on another's ground.

P'ASTURE, verb transitive To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.

P'ASTURE, verb intransitive To graze; to take food by eating grass from the ground.