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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 41 times in 37 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:15 - 'But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:36 - And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:6 - and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:16 - 'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:11 - And he said to them, 'What man shall be of you, who shall have one sheep, and if this may fall on the sabbaths into a ditch, will not lay hold on it and raise it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:12 - How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? -- so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:24 - and he answering said, 'I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:12 - 'What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not -- having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains -- seek that which is gone astray?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:32 - and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:33 - and he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:31 - then saith Jesus to them, 'All ye shall be stumbled at me this night; for it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:34 - and having come forth, Jesus saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion on them, that they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach many things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:27 - and Jesus saith to them -- 'All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:4 - 'What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:6 - and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:14 - and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:15 - and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:1 - 'Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:2 - and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:3 - to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:4 - and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:7 - Jesus said therefore again to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8 - all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:11 - 'I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:12 - and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:13 - and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:15 - according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:16 - and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:26 - but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:27 - according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:16 - He saith to him again, a second time, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Tend my sheep.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:17 - He saith to him the third time, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, 'Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, 'Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, 'Feed my sheep;

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:32 - And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: 'As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:36

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:36 - (according as it hath been written -- 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:20 - And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep -- in the blood of an age-during covenant -- our Lord Jesus,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:25 - for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:13 - and cinnamon, and odours, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies and souls of men.
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