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Lexicon :: Strong's G4263 - probaton

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πρόβατον
Transliteration
probaton (Key)
Pronunciation
prob'-at-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from a presumed. derivative of προβαίνω (G4260)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:689,936

Strong’s Definitions

†πρόβατον próbaton, prob'-at-on; probably neuter of a presumed derivative of G4260; something that walks forward (a quadruped), i.e. (specially), a sheep (literally or figuratively):—sheep(-fold).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x

The KJV translates Strong's G4263 in the following manner: sheep (40x), sheepfold (with G833) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x
The KJV translates Strong's G4263 in the following manner: sheep (40x), sheepfold (with G833) (1x).

  1. any four footed, tame animal accustomed to graze, small cattle (opp. to large cattle, horses, etc.), most commonly a sheep or a goat

    1. a sheep, and so always in the NT

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†πρόβατον próbaton, prob'-at-on; probably neuter of a presumed derivative of G4260; something that walks forward (a quadruped), i.e. (specially), a sheep (literally or figuratively):—sheep(-fold).
STRONGS G4263:
πρόβατον, προβάτου, τό (from προβαίνω, properly, 'that which walks forward'), from Homer down, the Sept. chiefly for צֹאן, then for שֶׂה, sometimes for כֶּבֶשׂ and כֶּשֶׂב (a lamb), properly, any four-footed, tame animal accustomed to graze, small cattle (opposed to large cattle, horses, etc.), most common a sheep or a goat; but especially a sheep, and so always in the N. T.: Matthew 7:15; Matthew 10:16; Matthew 12:11; Mark 6:34; Luke 15:4, 6; John 2:14; John 10:1-4, 11f.; Acts 8:32 (from Isaiah 53:7); 1 Peter 2:25; Revelation 18:13; πρόβατα σφαγῆς, sheep destined for the slaughter, Romans 8:36. metaphorically, πρόβατα, sheep, is used of the followers of any master: Matthew 26:31 and Mark 14:27 (from Zechariah 13:7); of mankind, who as needing salvation obey the injunctions of him who provides it and leads them to it; so of the followers of Christ: John 10:7f, 15f, 26; John 21:16 (R G L Tr text WH marginal reading), John 21:17 (R G L WH marginal reading); Hebrews 13:20; τά πρόβατα ἀπολωλότα (see ἀπόλλυμι, at the end), Matthew 10:6; Matthew 15:24; τά πρόβατα in distinction from τά ἐρίφια, are good men as distinguished from bad people, Matthew 25:33.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
53:7
Zechariah
13:7
Matthew
7:15; 10:6; 10:16; 12:11; 15:24; 25:33; 26:31
Mark
6:34; 14:27
Luke
15:4; 15:6
John
2:14; 10:1; 10:2; 10:3; 10:4; 10:7; 10:11; 10:15; 10:26; 21:16; 21:17
Acts
8:32
Romans
8:36
Hebrews
13:20
1 Peter
2:25
Revelation
18:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4263 matches the Greek πρόβατον (probaton),
which occurs 282 times in 251 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 4:2–Gen 50:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:4 - Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:5 - Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abimelech took sheep, oxen, and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored Sarah his wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - Then Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8 - And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - “The LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:14 - for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - “Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - And he looked, and saw a well in the field; and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks. A large stone was on the well’s mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - Now all the flocks would be gathered there; and they would roll the stone from the well’s mouth, water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the well’s mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - So he said to them, “Is he well?” And they said, “He is well. And look, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - Then he said, “Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 - Now while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flocks:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32 - “Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38 - And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39 - So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - “If he said thus: ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said thus: ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - “And it happened, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the flocks were streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - “And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that were her father’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - “These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - “Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - “I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - So Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:14 - two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13 - But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flock will die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, what was in the city and what was in the field,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the history of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12 - Then his brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - Then he said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - Now in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:13 - And it was told Tamar, saying, “Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:17 - And he said, “I will send a young goat from the flock.” So she said, “Will you give me a pledge till you send it?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:10 - “You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your children, your children’s children, your flocks and your herds, and all that you have.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - “that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:17 - So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys. Thus he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.

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