shepherds
Guides the flock
Shepherds are people who tend sheep, guiding flocks to pasture and protecting them from predators.
The term extends to anyone who guides or watches over others: The teacher shepherded her students through the museum.
Religious leaders are often called shepherds of their congregations.
As a verb, to shepherd is to guide carefully: She shepherded the project through committee.
Animals gathered together
meadow · grazing · crook · shearing · fleece · fold · sheepdog · collie
Hebrew name meaning breath
- DavidMasculine Hebrew name
- MosesHebrew prophet, liberator
- AbrahamFirst Hebrew patriarch
- JacobMale given name
Rachel · psalm · rod · staff · flock · anointing · parable · lamb
Trusted wisdom-giving advisor
- guideLeader or instruction book
- leaderOne who guides others
- protectorOne who safeguards others
- guardianProtective caretaker of another
steward · caretaker · watchful · vigilant · nurturing · tending · oversight · care
Nativity's traditional setting
- mangerLivestock feeding container
- angelsDivine winged messengers
- starLuminous astronomical object
- MagiEastern priests, biblical visitors
Mary · Joseph · Epiphany · Advent · tidings · swaddling · inn · census
flock
Animals gathered together
pasture · meadow · grazing · crook · shearing · fleece · fold · sheepdog · collie · tending
Abel
Hebrew name meaning breath
Jacob · Rachel · psalm · rod · staff · flock · anointing · parable · lamb · fold
mentor
Trusted wisdom-giving advisor
guardian · steward · caretaker · watchful · vigilant · nurturing · tending · oversight · care · direction
Bethlehem
Nativity's traditional setting
Magi · Mary · Joseph · Epiphany · Advent · tidings · swaddling · inn · census · Augustus
herder
Livestock caretaker
cowherd · drover · rancher · gaucho · vaquero · musterer · livestock · husbandry · agriculture · rural
migration
Movement to new territory
camps · yurts · tents · Bedouin · Navajo · Maasai · Basque · Kurdish · Tibetan · Andean
- nativitynativity set, baby Jesus, Christ child, Bethlehem, Mary
- pastoral lifeherders, herding, herdsmen, grazing, pastoralists
- Sunday schoolBible stories, Sunday school teachers, memory verses, lesson plans, Bible verse
- sheep farmingshearing, lambing, flocks, ewes, rams
- Biblical agricultureplowing, sowing, harvesting, reaping, threshing
- Christmas Worshipmidnight mass, nativity, Christmas Eve service, Christmas carols, candlelight service
shepherdswolves
Wild pack canines
wolves in sheep's clothing · false prophets · exploiters · deceivers · misleaders
- shepherd's pieMeat baked under potatoes
- German shepherdsBreed used by police
- Australian ShepherdsAmerican herding dog breed
- shepherd's crookHooked staff for herding
- good shepherdProtective guide of dependents
- shepherd dogDog bred for livestock work
shepherd, shepherded, shepherding, shepherdess, shepherdesses, shepherd's