Definition of "herdsman" []

• An owner or a breeder of livestock. (noun)

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• "“Millennia of urban life have evidently not been enough to erase the herdsman from the Jew,” he wrote."
• "Their instinct comes direct from God and guides them to help themselves in parturition; the very time when the herdsman is most anxious for his herds. wild goats -- ibex (Ps 104: 18; 1Sa 24: 2). hinds -- fawns; most timid and defenseless animals, yet cared for by God."
• "The image of a herdsman quietly guides the initial attempt to define the statesman, who is identified as herdsman of the human flock."