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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 gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:4 - But Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock - even the fattest of them. And the LORD was pleased with Abel and his offering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - So Abimelech gave sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father?" "What is it, my son?" he replied. "Here is the fire and the wood," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8 - "God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son," Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - "The LORD has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, 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 - He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I'll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

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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 off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well's mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - "Is he well?" Jacob asked. They replied, "He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - Then Jacob said, "Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - "We can't," they said, "until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off 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 arrived with her father's sheep, for she was tending them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - So Laban asked, "What should I give you?" "You don't need to give me a thing," Jacob replied, "but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32 - Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban's flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38 - Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39 - When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban's flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban's flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, 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 weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - If he said, 'The speckled animals will be your wage,' then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said, 'The streaked animals will be your wage,' then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - "Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - Then he said, 'Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - "I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female 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 - This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you - fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.

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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 young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. 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 - When his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - So Jacob said to him, "Go now and check on the welfare of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word." So Jacob sent him from the valley of Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - After some time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:13 - Tamar was told, "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 - He replied, "I'll send you a young goat from the flock." She asked, "Will you give me a pledge until you send it?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:10 - You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me - you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - Tell him, 'Your servants have taken care of cattle from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,' so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for everyone who takes care of sheep is disgusting to the Egyptians."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Pharaoh said to Joseph's brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did."

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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 food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for livestock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - all Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

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