גְּדֵרָה gᵉdêrâh

Meaning

enclosure (especially for flocks)

In the King James Version: (sheep-) cote (fold) hedge, wall.

Derivation: feminine of H1447 (גָּדֵר);

Where it is used

• Numbers 32:16 Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.
• Numbers 32:24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
• Numbers 32:36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
• 1 Samuel 24:3 Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
• Psalms 89:40 You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
• Jeremiah 49:3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
• Ezekiel 42:12 And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.
• Nahum 3:17 Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
• Zephaniah 2:6 So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.