牧ぼく人じん

noun

herder; herdsman; shepherd

Refers to a person who tends livestock, especially in pastoral or biblical contexts. The reading ぼくじん is standard; まきびと is rarer and somewhat literary.

• 聖せい書しょには羊ひつじ飼かいとしての牧ぼく人じんがよく登とう場じょうする。

  Herdsmen as shepherds often appear in the Bible.

• 彼かれは若わかい頃ころ、牧ぼく人じんとして草そう原げんで働はたらいていた。

  When he was young, he worked as a herder on the grasslands.