'Shearing' in the Bible

Now there was a man in Maon whose business and possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel

David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

And he set out and went to Samaria. On the way as he was at the place of the sand heaps [meeting place] for the shepherds,

Then Jehu said, “Take them alive.” So they took them alive and [later] slaughtered them at the well by the place of the sand heaps, forty-two men; he left none of them [alive].