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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.
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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 15 times in 14 verses in 'Exo' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16 - Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:17 - The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:19 - They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:3 - behold, the hand of the LORD will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:9 - Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:24 - Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve the LORD; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:32 - Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:38 - A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - [fn] “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:30 - You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:3 - No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.”
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