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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 - Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:4 - Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and [fn]gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:14

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - 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 - Then 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 - Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8 - Abraham said, “God will [fn]provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, so that he has become [fn]rich; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, 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 [fn]and herds and a great household, so that 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 [fn]bring me two choice [fn]young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - He looked, and [fn]saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on 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, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - And he said to them, “Is it well with him?” And they said, “It is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - He said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep, and go, pasture 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, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 - 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 - When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well 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 one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32 - let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep and every black [fn]one among the lambs and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - And he put a distance of 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 - He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they [fn]mated when they came to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39 - So the flocks [fn]mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Jacob separated the lambs, and [fn]made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - Moreover, whenever the [fn]stronger of the flock [fn]were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might [fn]mate by the rods;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the [fn]stronger Jacob’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - “If he spoke thus, ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flock brought forth speckled; and if he spoke thus, ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock brought forth striped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - “And it came about at the time when the flock were [fn]mating that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which were [fn]mating were striped, speckled, and mottled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - “He said, ‘Lift up now your eyes and see that all the male goats which are [fn]mating are striped, speckled, and mottled; 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 flock, then Rachel stole the [fn]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, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:41

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - I have oxen and donkeys and 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 - Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the 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 he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are [fn]a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the records of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12 - Then his brothers went to pasture 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, “Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - Now [fn]after a considerable time Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when [fn]the time of mourning was ended, Judah 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 - It was told to Tamar, “[fn]Behold, 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 - He said, therefore, “I will send you a [fn]young goat from the flock.” She said, moreover, “Will you give a pledge until you send it?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:10 - “You shall [fn]live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children and 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 - you shall say, ‘Your servants have been [fn]keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may [fn]live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is [fn]loathsome 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?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and 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 [fn]food in exchange for the horses and the [fn]flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he [fn]fed them with [fn]food in exchange for all their livestock [fn]that year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.

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