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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
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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

H6629

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

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 4:2–Gen 47:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:4 - And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:5 - Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abimelek brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:14 - He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?” “Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - “Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - “We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 - While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32 - Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38 - Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39 - they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:43 - In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - “In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - “I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,[fn] and the flocks and herds and camels as well.

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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 tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12 - Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:13 - When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:17 - “I’ll send you a young goat from my flock,” he said. “Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?” she asked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:10 - You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:32 - The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1 - Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?” “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”

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