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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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, he-asses, menservants, maidservants, she-asses, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:5

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abim'elech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abim'elech, and the two men made a covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - And Abim'elech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8 - Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and asses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:14 - He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - Go to the flock, and fetch me two good kids, that I may prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he loves;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and lo, three flocks of sheep lying beside it; for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place upon the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - He said, "Behold, it is still high day, it is not time for the animals to be gathered together; water the sheep, and go, pasture them."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 - While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Now 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 well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything; if you will do this for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32 - let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - and he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38 - He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the runnels, that is, the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39 - the flocks bred in front of the rods and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding Jacob laid the rods in the runnels before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the rods,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - but for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - If he said, 'The spotted shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, 'The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore striped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - In the mating season of the flock I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream that the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that leap upon the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 have changed my wages ten times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - and I have oxen, asses, flocks, menservants, and maidservants; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:14 - two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13 - But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - they took their flocks and their herds, their asses, and whatever was in the city and in the field;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the history of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought an ill report of them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12 - Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers, and with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:13 - And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:17 - He answered, "I will send you a kid from the flock." And she said, "Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:10 - you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:17 - So they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the asses: and he supplied them with food in exchange for all their cattle that year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household; only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.

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