a strong fenced enclosure for the protection of the sheep gathered within it (Nu 32:24; 1Ch 17:7; Ps 50:9; 78:70). In Joh 10:16 the Authorized Version renders by "fold" two distinct Greek words, aule and poimne, the latter of which properly means a "flock," and is so rendered in the Revised Version. (See also Mt 26:31; Lu 2:8; 1Co 9:7.) (See Fold.)
"Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."
"I shall take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds.
He also chose David His servant And took him from the sheepfolds;
Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, 'I WILL STRIKE DOWN THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE SCATTERED.'
In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.
"I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.