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Lexicon :: Strong's H6629 - ṣō'n

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צֹאן
Transliteration
ṣō'n
Pronunciation
tsone
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Part of Speech
collective feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to migrate
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1864a

Strong’s Definitions

צֹאן tsôʼn, tsone; or צאוֹן tsʼôwn; (Psalm 144:13), from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men):—(small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 274x

The KJV translates Strong's H6629 in the following manner: flock (138x), sheep (110x), cattle (15x), shepherd (with H7462) (2x), lamb (with H1121) (2x), lamb (1x), sheep (with H4480) (1x), sheepcotes (with H1448) (1x), sheepfold (with H1448) (1x), sheepfold (with H4356) (1x), sheepshearers (with H1494) (1x), shepherd (with H7462) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 274x
The KJV translates Strong's H6629 in the following manner: flock (138x), sheep (110x), cattle (15x), shepherd (with H7462) (2x), lamb (with H1121) (2x), lamb (1x), sheep (with H4480) (1x), sheepcotes (with H1448) (1x), sheepfold (with H1448) (1x), sheepfold (with H4356) (1x), sheepshearers (with H1494) (1x), shepherd (with H7462) (1x).
  1. small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks

    1. small cattle (usually of sheep and goats)

    2. of multitude (simile)

    3. of multitude (metaphor)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צֹאן tsôʼn, tsone; or צאוֹן tsʼôwn; (Psalm 144:13), from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men):—(small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).
STRONGS H6629: Abbreviations
צֹאן 273 collective noun feminineGenesis 30:36 (possibly masculine Genesis 30:39a +, KöSynt. § 247 g, but dubious, Genesis 30:39b with verb feminine plural, as usually; in 1 Samuel 15:14 join הַוֶּה with קוֺל; see further AlbrZAW xv (1895), 316 ff.) small cattle, sheep and goats, flock, flocks; — ׳צ absolute Genesis 4:2 +; construct Genesis 29:9 +; suffix ֺצאֹנו Genesis 4:4 +; ּצאֹנֵנו Exodus 10:9, ּצאֹונֵו Psalm 144:13; as plural ֺצאֹנֵינו Nehemiah 10:37 van d. H. Gi (not Baer; very late, si vera lectio), etc.; —
1. literally
a. small cattle, usually of sheep and goats in one flock (RobBR i. 477) Genesis 30:31, 32 +; sheep specified also Genesis 21:28 (ּ׳כִּבְשׂת הַצ), Genesis 31:28 (׳אֵילֵי צ) +; sheep only 1 Samuel 25:2 (+ עִוִּים); goats specified Genesis 27:9; Jeremiah 50:8; ׳צ as yielding
(1) animals for food Amos 6:4 (בָּרִים), 1 Samuel 14:32; 2 Samuel 12:4; Nehemiah 5:18 +; מַאְַבָל ׳צ Psalm 44:12 (in simile);
(2) wool Genesis 31:19 + (see [גָּזַז], גֵּז);
(3) milk, ׳חֲלֵב צ Deuteronomy 32:14 (? goats' milk, compare Proverbs 27:27);
(4) sacrificial victims Genesis 4:4 (J), Leviticus 1:2, 10; Leviticus 3:6; Numbers 15:3 (all P), Numbers 22:40 (E), Deuteronomy 12:6, 17, 21 + often; so צאֹן קָדָשִׁים Ezekiel 36:38 a, compare בְקָרֵינוּ וְצאֹנֵינוּ בְּכוֺרֵי Nehemiah 10:37; in general as property (often + בָּקָר, etc.) Genesis 12:16; Genesis 13:5; Genesis 24:35; Job 1:3; Job 42:12 + often (see also II. [עַשְׁתָּרוֺת]); gift Genesis 20:14; Genesis 21:27; Genesis 38:17 (goat), Deuteronomy 15:14; 2 Chronicles 17:11; booty 1 Samuel 15:9, 15 +.
b. ׳צ sometimes of a definite number of animals (i.e. as plural of שֶׂה, etc.): two Isaiah 7:21, four Exodus 21:37 (larger numbers see 1 Samuel 25:2, 5, 18; Numbers 31:32, 36; Nehemiah 5:18; Job 1:3; Job 42:12 above). — See also בֵּן 7b; גְּדֵרָה, מִכְלָה, מַרְבֵּץ, נָוֶה, עֵדֶר; כֶלֶב, רֹצֶה, שַׁצֵר.
2. simile of multitude Ezekiel 36:37, 38, compare Psalm 107:41; of children Job 21:11; of dead, with death as shepherd Psalm 49:15; of (shepherdless) Israel Numbers 27:17; 1 Kings 22:17 2 Chronicles 18:16; Zechariah 10:2; Zechariah 13:7, wandering in sin Isaiah 53:6; of Israel led by ׳י Psalm 77:21; Psalm 78:52; Psalm 80:2, compare Zechariah 9:16 (on text see We Now); Ezekiel 34:12; of Israel in distress, טִבְחָת ׳כְּצ Psalm 44:23, compare (of wicked) לְטִבְתָה ׳צ Jeremiah 12:3; of scattered Babylonian Isaiah 13:14.
3. metaphor of multitude, אָרָם ׳צ Ezekiel 36:38; of Israel 2 Samuel 24:17 = 1 Chronicles 21:17; Jeremiah 23:1, 2, 3; Ezekiel 24:5, and especially sustained figurative Ezekiel 34:2, 3 + 17 times in Ezekiel 34, also Zechariah 11:7, 17; אֹבְדוֺת ׳צ Jeremiah 50:6, ְתִּפְאַרְתֵך ׳צ Jeremiah 13:20; of Israel under ׳י's care, (ֹ־ו, ִ֯י) מַרְעִיתֶ֑ךָד ׳צ Psalm 74:1; Psalm 79:13; Psalm 100:3; Ezekiel 34:31, also ֺיָדו ׳צ Psalm 95:7(|| ֿמַרְעִיתוֺעַם; read perhaps ֺמַרְעִיתו ׳צ, ֺצַם יָדו, so Che and others); ָנַחֲלָתֶך ׳צ Micah 7:14; also in combinations: ֵּ׳אַדִּירֵי הַצ Jeremiah 25:34, 35, 36, חַהֲרֵגָה ׳צ Zechariah 11:4, 7 (compare Psalm 44:23), ּ׳עֲנִיֵּי הַצ Psalm 44:7; Psalm 44:11 (all of Israel); of Edom ּ׳צְעִירֵי הַ צ Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:2; 4:4; 4:4; 12:16; 13:5; 20:14; 21:27; 21:28; 24:35; 27:9; 29:9; 30:31; 30:32; 30:36; 30:39; 30:39; 31:19; 31:28; 38:17

Exodus

10:9

Leviticus

1:2; 1:10; 3:6

Numbers

15:3; 22:40; 27:17; 31:32; 31:36

Deuteronomy

12:6; 12:17; 12:21; 15:14; 32:14

1 Samuel

14:32; 15:9; 15:14; 15:15; 25:2; 25:2; 25:5; 25:18

2 Samuel

12:4; 24:17

1 Kings

22:17

1 Chronicles

21:17

2 Chronicles

17:11; 18:16

Nehemiah

5:18; 5:18; 10:37; 10:37

Job

1:3; 1:3; 21:11; 42:12; 42:12

Psalms

44:7; 44:11; 44:12; 44:23; 44:23; 49:15; 74:1; 78:52; 79:13; 80:2; 95:7; 100:3; 107:41; 144:13

Proverbs

27:27

Isaiah

7:21; 13:14; 53:6

Jeremiah

12:3; 13:20; 23:1; 23:2; 23:3; 25:34; 25:35; 25:36; 49:20; 50:6; 50:8; 50:45

Ezekiel

24:5; 34; 34:2; 34:3; 34:12; 34:31; 36:37; 36:38; 36:38; 36:38

Amos

6:4

Micah

7:14

Zechariah

9:16; 10:2; 11:4; 11:7; 11:7; 11:17; 13:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6629 matches the Hebrew צֹאן (ṣō'n),
which occurs 274 times in 247 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 5 (Jer 25:34–Zec 13:7)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 -

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;

Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock H6629;

For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions [fn]have come,

And you will fall like a precious vessel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:35 -

[fn]There will be no sanctuary for the shepherds,

Nor escape for the masters of the flock H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:36 -

Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds,

And the wailing of the masters of the flock H6629!

For the LORD is destroying their pasture,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12 -

“They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion,

And they will be radiant over the [fn]bounty of the LORD

Over the grain, the new wine, the oil,

And over the young of the flock H6629 and the herd.

And their life will be like a watered garden,

And they will never languish again.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 -

“This is what the LORD of armies says: ‘There will again be in this place which is waste, without man or animal, and in all its cities, a pasture for shepherds who rest their flocks H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:13 - ‘In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks H6629 will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them,’ says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:20 -

Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has in mind against the inhabitants of Teman: they will certainly drag them off, even the little ones of the flock H6629; He will certainly make their pasture desolate because of them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:29 -

“They will take away their tents and their flocks H6629;

They will carry off for themselves

Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels,

And they will call out to one another, ‘Horror on every side!’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:6 -

“My people have become lost sheep H6629;

Their shepherds have led them astray.

They have made them turn aside on the mountains.

They have gone from mountain to hill,

They have forgotten their resting place.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:8 -

“Wander away from the midst of Babylon

And [fn]go out from the land of the Chaldeans;

Be like male goats [fn]at the head of the flock H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:45 - Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes which He has in mind against the land of the Chaldeans: they will certainly drag them off, even the little ones of the flock H6629; He will certainly make their pasture desolate because of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:5 -

“Take the choicest of the flock H6629,

And also stack [fn]wood under [fn]the pot.

Make it boil vigorously.

Also boil its bones in it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - “I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks H6629. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to [fn]those shepherds, ‘This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: “Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been [fn]feeding themselves! Should the shepherds not [fn]feed the flock H6629?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:3 - “You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep [fn]without feeding the flock H6629.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:6 - “My flock H6629 strayed through all the mountains and on every high hill; My flock H6629 was scattered over all the surface of the earth, and there was no one to search or seek for them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - “As I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “certainly, because My flock H6629 has become plunder, and My flock H6629 has become food for all the animals of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock H6629, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock H6629,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand My [fn]sheep H6629 [fn]from them and make them stop tending sheep H6629. So the shepherds will not [fn]feed themselves anymore, but I will save My sheep H6629 from their mouth, so that they will not be food for them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:11 -

For the Lord GOD says this: “Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep H6629 and look after them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:12 - “As a shepherd cares for his flock on a day when he is among his scattered [fn]sheep H6629, so I will care for My [fn]sheep H6629 and will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:15 - “I Myself will feed My flock H6629 and I Myself will [fn]lead them to rest,” declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:17 -

“As for you, My flock H6629, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am going to judge between one [fn]sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:19 - ‘But as for My flock H6629, they must eat what you trample with your feet, and drink what you muddy with your feet!’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - therefore, I will save My flock H6629, and they will no longer be plunder; and I will judge between one sheep and another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:31 - “As for you, My sheep H6629, [fn]the sheep H6629 of My pasture, you are mankind, and I am your God,” declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:37 -

‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “This too I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their people like a flock H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - “Like the flock H6629 [fn]for sacrifices, like the flock H6629 at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks H6629 of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:23 - ‘When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a [fn]bull without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock H6629.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:25 - ‘For seven days you shall prepare a goat as a sin offering daily; also a [fn]bull and a ram from the flock H6629, both without blemish, shall be prepared.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:15 - and one sheep from each flock H6629 of two hundred from the watering places of Israel—for a grain offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:6 -

They will go with their flocks H6629 and herds

To seek the LORD, but they will not find Him;

He has withdrawn from them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:18 -

How the animals have groaned!

The herds of cattle have wandered aimlessly

Because there is no pasture for them;

Even the flocks of sheep H6629 have [fn]suffered.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 -

Those who lie on beds of ivory,

And lounge around on their couches,

And eat lambs from the flock H6629,

And calves from the midst of the fattened cattle,

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:15 - “But the LORD took me from [fn]following the flock H6629, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - And he issued a proclamation, and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: No person, animal, herd, or flock H6629 is to taste anything. They are not to eat, or drink water.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:12 -

“I will certainly assemble all of you, Jacob,

I will certainly gather the remnant of Israel.

I will put them together like sheep H6629 in the fold;

Like a flock in the midst of its pasture

They will be noisy with people.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 -

The remnant of Jacob

Will be among the nations,

Among many peoples

Like a lion among the animals of the forest,

Like a young lion among flocks of sheep H6629,

Which, if he passes through,

Tramples and tears,

And there is no one who can rescue.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:14 -

Shepherd Your people with Your scepter,

The flock H6629 of Your [fn]possession

Which lives by itself in the woodland,

In the midst of [fn]a fruitful field.

Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead

As in the days of old.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 -

Even if the fig tree does not blossom,

And there is no [fn]fruit on the vines,

If the yield of the olive fails,

And the fields produce no food,

Even if the flock H6629 disappears from the fold,

And there are no cattle in the stalls,

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:6 -

So the seacoast will become grazing places,

With pastures for shepherds and folds for flocks H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:16 -

And the LORD their God will save them on that day

As the flock H6629 of His people;

For they are like the precious stones of a crown,

Sparkling on His land.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 -

For the [fn]household idols speak deception,

And the diviners see [fn]an illusion

And tell deceitful dreams;

They comfort in vain.

Therefore the people [fn]wander like sheep H6629,

They are wretched because there is no shepherd.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:4 -

This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock H6629 doomed to slaughter.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:7 -

So I pastured the flock H6629 doomed to slaughter, [fn]therefore also the afflicted of the flock H6629. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called [fn]Favor, and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:11 - So it was [fn]broken on that day, and [fn]so the afflicted of the flock H6629 who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:17 -

“Woe to the worthless shepherd

Who abandons the flock H6629!

A sword will be on his arm

And on his right eye!

His arm will be totally withered,

And his right eye will be [fn]blind.”

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:7 -

“Awake, sword, against My Shepherd,

And against the Man, My Associate,”

Declares the LORD of armies.

“Strike the Shepherd and the sheep H6629 will be scattered;

And I will turn My hand [fn]against the little ones.


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