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Lexicon :: Strong's H7716 - śê

Aa
שֶׂה
Transliteration
śê
Pronunciation
seh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from שָׁאָה (H7582) through the idea of pushing out to graze
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TWOT Reference: 2237

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׂה seh, seh; or שֵׂי sêy; probably from H7582 through the idea of pushing out to graze; a member of a flock, i.e. a sheep or goat:—(lesser, small) cattle, ewe, goat, lamb, sheep. Compare H2089.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x

The KJV translates Strong's H7716 in the following manner: sheep (18x), cattle (10x), lamb (16x), ewe (1x), lamb (with H3532) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x
The KJV translates Strong's H7716 in the following manner: sheep (18x), cattle (10x), lamb (16x), ewe (1x), lamb (with H3532) (1x).

  1. one of a flock, lamb, sheep, goat, young sheep, young goat

    1. sheep, goat

    2. flock (collective)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׂה seh, seh; or שֵׂי sêy; probably from H7582 through the idea of pushing out to graze; a member of a flock, i.e. a sheep or goat:—(lesser, small) cattle, ewe, goat, lamb, sheep. Compare H2089.
STRONGS H7716: Abbreviations
† שֶׂה noun masculineGenesis 30:32 and (less often) feminineJeremiah 50:17 one of a flock, a sheep (or goat) (Assyrian šuju, Arabic bdb096101 plural bdb096102, bdb096103, etc. (also wild ox), compare Egyptian sau, sheep Bondi65, compare IdBa NB§ 2 b ς); — absolute שֶׂה Genesis 30:32 +, construct שֵׂה Isaiah 43:23 +; suffix שֵׂיוֺ Deuteronomy 22:1, שְׂיֵ֫הוּ 1 Samuel 14:34; not in plural; —
1. a sheep, or goat, noun of individual meaning of צאֹן : as property Genesis 32:32 (twice in verse) (J; + עאֹן collective, כְּשָׂבִים, עִזִּים), Exodus 21:37 (twice in verse) (+ שׁוֺר, צאֹן collective), Exodus 22:3 (+ שׁוֺר, חֲמוֺר, Exodus 22:8 (id.), Exodus 22:9 (id; all E); Deuteronomy 22:1 (+ שׁוֺר), 1 Samuel 17:34 (זה Kt van d. H. erroneous, see Baer Dr), roaming pasture Isaiah 7:25, straying Psalm 119:176 (simile), slaughtered Isaiah 53:7 (in simile); + שׁוֺר, חֲמוֺר Judges 6:4; 1 Samuel 22:19; Joshua 6:21 (J), + id. + גָּמָל 1 Samuel 15:3; as sacrifice Genesis 22:7, 8 (J), Exodus 13:13; Leviticus 5:12; Leviticus 12:8; Numbers 15:11 (בַּכְּבָשִׂים אוֺ בָּעִזִּים שׂ׳; all P), Deuteronomy 18:3 (+ שׁוֺר), Isaiah 43:23; Isaiah 66:3 (+ שׁוֺר), מִןהַֿצּאֹן Ezekiel 45:15; compare Exodus 34:19 (+ שׁוֺר), Vulgate20 (J), Leviticus 26 (P; + שׁוֺר); fit for sacrifice Leviticus 22:28 (H); unfit Vulgate23 (H), Deuteronomy 17:1 (both + שׁוֺר); as food 1 Samuel 14:34 (+ שׁוֺר), כְּשָׂבִים וְשׂ׳ עִזִּים שׂ׳ Deuteronomy 14:4 (+ id.); for Passover Exodus 12:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 12:4 (twice in verse); Exodus 12:5 (P); figurative of Israel Ezekiel 34:17 (twice in verse) (|| אֵילִים, עַתּוּדִים), Ezekiel 34:20; Ezekiel 34:20; Ezekiel 34:22; Ezekiel 34:22.
2. collective flock: שֶׂה פְזוּרָה Jeremiah 50:17 (= צאֹן אֹבְדוֺת Jeremiah 50:6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

22:7; 22:8; 30:32; 30:32; 32:32

Exodus

12:3; 12:4; 12:5; 13:13; 22:3; 22:8; 22:9; 34:19

Leviticus

5:12; 12:8; 22:28; 26

Numbers

15:11

Deuteronomy

14:4; 17:1; 18:3; 22:1; 22:1

Joshua

6:21

Judges

6:4

1 Samuel

14:34; 14:34; 15:3; 17:34; 22:19

Psalms

119:176

Isaiah

7:25; 43:23; 43:23; 53:7; 66:3

Jeremiah

50:6; 50:17; 50:17

Ezekiel

34:17; 34:20; 34:20; 34:22; 34:22; 45:15

H7716

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Strong's Number H7716 matches the Hebrew שֶׂה (śê),
which occurs 47 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8 - And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32 - Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:3 - Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:4 - And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:5 - Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13 - And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let payment be made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:4 - If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:9 - In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10 - If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:19 - Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:20 - A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - And if he has not money enough for a lamb, then let him give, for his offering to the Lord, two doves or two young pigeons; one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - And if she has not money enough for a lamb, then let her take two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burned offering and the other for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away her sin and she will be clean,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:23 - An ox or a lamb which has more or less than its natural parts, may be given as a free offering; but it will not be taken in payment of an oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:28 - A cow or a sheep may not be put to death with its young on the same day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 - But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:11 - This is to be done for every young ox and for every male sheep or he-lamb or young goat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:4 - These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1 - No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:3 - And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1 - If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34 - And Saul said, Go about among the people and say to them, Let every man come here to me with his ox and his sheep, and put them to death here, and take his meal: do no sin against the Lord by taking the blood with the flesh. So all the people took their oxen with them that night and put them to death there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - And David said to Saul, Your servant has been keeper of his father's sheep; and if a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:176

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:176 - I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25 - And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:23 - You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:3 - He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:17 - Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:17 - And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:20 - For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:15 - And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.
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