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Amos the nōqēd in the light of Ugaritic

a long time. He was apparently both a fruit-farmer and involved in some fashion with the cattle business, as is implied by Amos 7:14 (a passage that is not free from textual problems). But the particular aspect of Amos’ life which is the subject of this paper is his role as a noqed (Amos 1:1), which is conventionally translated in English versions by ’shepherd.’ While this translation appears to be generally correct, the word n5qjd is nevertheless unusual; the more common Hebrew word for shepherd is rõ’eh, and hence the precise nuance of n5qjd must be distinguished from the more frequently employed term. The difficulty in determining the precise sense of n5qjd is compounded by the fact that the word is used only twice in the entire Hebrew Bible; apart from Amos 1:1, it occurs only in 2 Kings 3:4 to describe Mesha, King of Moab.l 1