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Lexicon :: Strong's H6629 - ṣō'n

Aa
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
Dictionary Aids

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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6629 matches the Hebrew צֹאן (ṣō'n),
which occurs 274 times in 247 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 5 (Jer 25:34–Zec 13:7)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 -

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;

And roll yourselves in ashes, you masters of the flock H6629;

For the days of your slaughter and your scatterings are being fulfilled,

And you will fall like a desirable vessel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:35 -

“Refuge will perish from the shepherds

And escape from the mighty ones of the flock H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:36 -

Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds,

And the wailing of the mighty ones of the flock H6629!

For Yahweh is destroying their pasture,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12 -

“They will come and sing for joy on the height of Zion,

And they will be radiant over the goodness of Yahweh

Over the grain and the new wine and the oil,

And over the young of the flock H6629 and the herd;

And their soul will be like a watered garden,

And they will never waste away again.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 -

“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘There will again be in this place which is waste, without man or beast, and in all its cities, [fn]an abode of shepherds who cause their flocks H6629 to lie down.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:13 - ‘In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the [fn]Shephelah, in the cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks H6629 will again pass under the hands of the one who numbers them,’ says Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:20 -

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh which He has counseled against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock H6629; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:29 -

“They will take away their tents and their flocks H6629;

They will carry off for themselves

Their tent curtains, all their goods, and their camels,

And they will call out to one another, ‘Terror on every side!’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:6 -

“My people have become lost sheep H6629;

Their shepherds have led them astray.

They have made them turn away on the mountains;

They have gone along from mountain to hill

And have forgotten their resting place.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:8 -

“Wander away from the midst of Babylon

And [fn]go forth from the land of the Chaldeans;

Be also like male goats [fn]at the head of the flock H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:45 - Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh which He has counseled against Babylon, and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock H6629; surely He will make their [fn]pasture desolate because of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:5 -

“Take the choicest of the flock H6629,

And also pile [fn]wood under [fn]the pot.

Make it seethe vigorously.

Also boil its bones in it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - “I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks H6629. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to [fn]those shepherds, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been [fn]shepherding themselves! Should not the shepherds shepherd the flock H6629?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:3 - “You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you sacrifice the fat sheep without shepherding the flock H6629.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:6 - “My flock H6629 wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill; My flock H6629 was scattered over all the surface of the earth, and there was no one to seek or search for them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - “As I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “surely because My flock H6629 has become plunder, My flock H6629 has even become food for all the beasts of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not seek for My flock H6629, but rather the shepherds shepherded themselves and did not shepherd My flock H6629;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will seek My flock H6629 from their hand and make them cease from shepherding the flock H6629. So the shepherds will not shepherd themselves anymore, but I will deliver My flock H6629 from their mouth so that they will not be food for them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:11 -

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I Myself will seek My sheep H6629 and care for them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:12 - “As a shepherd [fn]cares for his herd in the day when he is among his [fn]sheep H6629 which are spread out, so I will [fn]care for My [fn]sheep H6629 and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:15 - “I will shepherd My flock H6629, and I will make them lie down,” declares Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:17 -

“As for you, My flock H6629, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I will judge between one [fn]sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:19 - ‘As for My flock H6629, they must be shepherded on what you tread down with your feet and drink what you [fn]foul with your feet!’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - therefore, I will save My flock H6629, and they will no longer be plunder; and I will judge between one sheep and another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:31 - “As for you, My sheep H6629, the sheep H6629 of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God,” declares Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:37 -

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “This also I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - “Like the flock H6629 for holy offerings, like the flock H6629 at Jerusalem during her appointed times, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks H6629 of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:23 - ‘When you have finished purifying it, you shall present a bull from the herd without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock H6629.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:25 - ‘For seven days you shall offer daily a goat for a sin offering; also a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock H6629, without blemish, shall be offered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:15 - and one sheep from each flock H6629 of two hundred from the watering places of Israel—for a grain offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” declares Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:6 -

They will go with their flocks H6629 and herds

To seek Yahweh, but they will not find Him;

He has withdrawn from them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:18 -

How the beasts groan!

The herds of cattle wander aimlessly

Because there is no pasture for them;

Even the flocks of sheep H6629 [fn]suffer.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 -

Those who lay down on beds of ivory

And sprawl on their couches

And eat lambs from the flock H6629

And calves from the midst of the stall,

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:15 - “But Yahweh took me from [fn]following the flock H6629, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - And he cried out and said,

“In Nineveh by the [fn]decree of the king and his nobles[fn]: Do not let man, [fn]animal, herd, or flock H6629 taste a thing. Do not let them eat, and do not let them drink water.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:12 -

“I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob;

I will surely gather the remnant of Israel.

I will put them together like sheep H6629 in the fold;

Like a flock in the midst of its pasture

They will be noisy with men.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 -

Then the remnant of Jacob

Will be among the nations,

Among many peoples

Like a lion among the beasts of the forest,

Like a young lion among flocks of sheep H6629,

Which, if it passes through,

Tramples down and tears,

And there is none to deliver.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:14 -

Shepherd Your people with Your scepter,

The flock H6629 of Your inheritance

Which dwells by itself in the forest,

In the midst of [fn]a fruitful orchard.

Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead

As in the ancient days.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 -

Though the fig tree should not blossom

And there be no produce on the vines,

Though the yield of the olive should fail

And the fields yield no food,

Though the flock H6629 should be cut off from the fold

And there be no cattle in the stalls,

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:6 -

So the seacoast will be pastures,

With [fn]caves for shepherds and folds for flocks H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:16 -

And Yahweh their God will save them in that day

As the flock H6629 of His people;

For they are as the stones of a crown,

[fn]Sparkling in His land.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 -

For the teraphim speak wickedness,

And the diviners behold [fn]false visions

And speak worthless dreams;

They comfort in vain.

Therefore the people journey like sheep H6629;

They are afflicted because there is no shepherd.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:4 -

Thus says Yahweh my God, “Shepherd the flock H6629 doomed to slaughter.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:7 -

So I shepherded the flock H6629 doomed to slaughter[fn]hence the afflicted of the flock H6629. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called [fn]Favor, and the other I called [fn]Union; so I shepherded the flock H6629.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:11 - So it was [fn]broken on that day, and [fn]thus the afflicted of the flock H6629 who were watching me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:17 -

“Woe to the worthless shepherd

Who forsakes the flock H6629!

A sword will be on his arm

And on his right eye!

His arm will be totally dried up,

And his right eye will be utterly dimmed.”

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:7 -

“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd

And against the man, My Associate,”

Declares Yahweh of hosts.

“Strike the Shepherd that the sheep H6629 may be scattered;

And I will turn My hand [fn]against the little ones.


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