Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NASB95

NASB95

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H6629 - ṣō'n

Choose a new font size and typeface
צֹאן
Transliteration
ṣō'n
Pronunciation
tsone
Listen
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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

H6629

Read the Full Entry

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 3 / 5 (Deu 28:31–2Ch 18:16)

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:31 - “Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep H6629 shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - “Moreover, it shall eat the [fn]offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock H6629 until they have caused you to perish.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:14 - Curds of cows, and milk of the flock, H6629
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the finest of the wheat—
And of the blood of grapes you drank wine.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:24 - Then Joshua and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the mantle, the bar of gold, his sons, his daughters, his [fn]oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, H6629 his tent and all that belonged to him; and they brought them up to the valley of [fn]Achor.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:17 - “He will take a tenth of your flocks, H6629 and you yourselves will become his servants.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:32 - The people [fn]rushed greedily upon the spoil, and took sheep H6629 and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, H6629 the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - But Samuel said, “What then is this [fn]bleating of the sheep H6629 in my ears, and the [fn]lowing of the oxen which I hear?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep H6629 and oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; but the rest we have utterly destroyed.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - “But the people took some of the spoil, sheep H6629 and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are these all the children?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep.” H6629 Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and [fn]bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:19 - So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David who is with the flock.” H6629

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:15 - but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s flock H6629 at Bethlehem.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:20 - So David arose early in the morning and left the flock H6629 with a keeper and took the supplies and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the circle of the camp while the army was going out in battle array shouting the war cry.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:28 - Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep H6629 in the wilderness? I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - But David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. H6629 When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:3 - He came to the sheepfolds H6629 on the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to [fn]relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the inner recesses of the cave.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:2 - Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; and the man was very [fn]rich, and he had three thousand sheep H6629 and a thousand goats. And it came about while he was shearing his sheep H6629 in Carmel

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4 - that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. H6629

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16 - “They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep. H6629

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18 - Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep H6629 already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9 - David [fn]attacked the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive, and he took away the sheep, H6629 the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:20 - So David had [fn]captured all the sheep H6629 and the cattle which the people drove ahead of [fn]the other livestock, and they said, “This is David’s spoil.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:8 - “Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, H6629 to be ruler over My people Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:2 - “The rich man had a great many flocks H6629 and herds.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4 - “Now a traveler came to the rich man,
And he [fn]was unwilling to take from his own flock H6629 or his own herd,
To prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him;
Rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29 - honey, curds, sheep, H6629 and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:17 - Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but these sheep, H6629 what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:9 - Adonijah sacrificed sheep H6629 and oxen and fatlings by the [fn]stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:19 - “He has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep H6629 in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king and Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:25 - “For he has gone down today and has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep H6629 in abundance, and has invited all the king’s sons and the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest, and behold, they are eating and drinking before him; and they say, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fat oxen, twenty [fn]pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep H6629 besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:5 - And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing [fn]so many sheep H6629 and oxen they could not be counted or numbered.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. H6629 So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:17 - So he said,
“I saw all Israel
Scattered on the mountains,
Like sheep H6629 which have no shepherd.
And the LORD said, ‘These have no master.
Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep H6629 and oxen and male and female servants?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:39 - They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. H6629

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41 - These, recorded by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and [fn]attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. H6629

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:21 - They took away their cattle: their 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, H6629 2,000 donkeys; and 100,000 [fn]men.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40 - Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. H6629 There was joy indeed in Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:7 - “Now, therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, H6629 to be leader over My people Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:17 - David said to God, “Is it not I who [fn]commanded to count the people? Indeed, I am the one who has sinned and done very wickedly, but these sheep, H6629 what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand be against me and my father’s household, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:31 - Jaziz the Hagrite had charge of the flocks. H6629 All these were [fn]overseers of the property which belonged to King David.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:6 - And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled with him before the ark, were sacrificing [fn]so many sheep H6629 and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:5 - King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. H6629 Thus the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:15 - They also struck down [fn]those who owned livestock, and they carried away large numbers of sheep H6629 and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11 - They sacrificed to the LORD that day 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep H6629 from the spoil they had brought.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:11 - Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks, H6629 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:2 - Some years later he went down to visit Ahab at Samaria. And Ahab slaughtered many sheep H6629 and oxen for him and the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:16 - So he said,
“I saw all Israel
Scattered on the mountains,
Like sheep H6629 which have no shepherd;
And the LORD said,
‘These have no master.
Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”

Search Results Continued...
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NASB95
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NASB95
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan