tson H6629

צֹאן (tson) means “flock” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

צֹאן Hebrew · H6629 274 tagged occurrences in 247 verses

Pronunciation guide: tsone Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H6629G

צֹאן · tson · flock

1) small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks 1a) small cattle (usually of sheep and goats) 1b) of multitude (simile) 1c) of multitude (metaphor)

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TBESH · H6629H

צֹאן · tson · Sheep (Gate)

This name means sheep and goats Also named: probatikos (προβατικός "Sheep Gate" G4262)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or צאוֹן; (Psalm 144:13), from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)

KJV glosses: (small) cattle, flock ([phrase] -s), lamb ([phrase] -s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).

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How translators render H6629

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
sheep	48
the flock	27
my flock	11
and flocks	10
of the flock	10
the sheep	10
like sheep	8
the flocks	8
of sheep	7
your flocks	7
flocks	6
of your flocks	6
flock	5
their flocks	5
from the flock	4
like a flock	4
or flock	4
and sheep	3
and the sheep	3
for their flocks	3
his sheep	3
as sheep	2
from your flock	2
of his flock	2
of your flock	2
their flock	2
with flocks	2
with their flocks	2
a lamb	1
against the sheep	1
and	1
and the flocks	1
and these flocks	1
and with our flocks	1
and your sheep	1
animals	1
are my flock	1
are my flocks	1
as the flock	1
as the sheep	1
as well as the flocks	1
at the sheep	1
both flocks	1
but if the animals	1
flocks and herds	1
for a sheep	1
for flocks	1
for my flock	1
for sheep	1
for the flocks	1
for your flocks	1
from each flock	1
from their flocks	1
if all our flocks	1
is with the sheep	1
like a sheep	1
like flocks	1
like the numerous flocks	1
my sheep	1
of my flock	1
of the animals	1
of the flocks	1
of the sheep	1
one of his own sheep	1
or flocks	1
or sheep	1
or the flock	1
our flocks	1
our sheep	1
oxen	1
so when the flocks	1
the animals	1
the females	1
the rest	1
the sheepfolds	1
they	1
though the sheep	1
where his flocks were	1
why must my flock	1
young that were	1
your flock	1
your sheep and goats	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
sheep	32
of the flock	15
the flock	14
the sheep	11
and sheep	8
my flock	7
of thy sheep	6
out of the flock	6
cattle	5
his sheep	5
like a flock	5
of sheep	5
and the sheep	4
flock	4
flocks	4
of the sheep	4
and their flocks	3
as sheep	3
like sheep	3
my sheep	3
of flocks	3
the flocks	3
all the flocks	2
and of thy flock	2
and the flocks	2
and thy flocks	2
as the flock	2
for flocks	2
for their flocks	2
from the flock	2
him flocks	2
like lambs	2
of his flock	2
of my flock	2
of the flocks	2
or of the flock	2
shall the flocks	2
shepherds	2
their flocks	2
upon the cattle	2
with flocks	2
with the sheep	2
your flocks	2
against the sheep	1
all the cattle	1
all the flock	1
all we like sheep	1
also with them and flocks	1
and as a sheep	1
and for the flocks	1
and his sheep	1
and my flock	1
and of our flocks	1
and of sheep	1
and of the flock	1
and of the flocks	1
and of the sheep	1
and of thy flocks	1
and of your flocks	1
and over the flocks	1
and small cattle	1
and upon the sheep	1
as the sheep	1
be not as sheep	1
but these sheep	1
but when the cattle	1
even unto the sheep	1
for every shepherd	1
for her sake and he had sheep	1
for my flock	1
for sheep	1
for thy cattle	1
had flocks	1
him from the sheepfolds	1
in the flock	1
my cattle	1
neither let the flocks	1
nor flock	1
not my flock	1
not the flock	1
now to the flock	1
o my flock	1
of his own flock	1
of the cattle	1
of thy flock	1
of thy flocks	1
of your sheep	1
only let your flocks	1
or for sheep	1
or of thy flock	1
or sheep	1
our sheep	1
out of the flocks	1
out of thy flock	1
sheepfolds	1
surely because my flock	1
that the cattle	1
their flock	1
their sheep	1
their way as a flock	1
then all the cattle	1
there for their flocks	1
these sheep	1
through all thy flock	1
thy flock	1
thy flocks	1
thy sheep	1
to the sheepcotes	1
to thee thy sheep	1
unto his flock	1
unto his sheepshearers	1
unto the sheep	1
us like sheep	1
when the flocks	1
with him and the flocks	1
with our flocks	1
with the flocks	1
with their flocks	1
with thy sheep	1
ye the sheep	1
yea my flock	1
you a lamb	1

Verses containing H6629

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Genesis 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
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Genesis 4:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
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Genesis 12:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
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Genesis 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
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Genesis 20:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abimelech brought sheep and cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him.
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Genesis 21:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
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Genesis 21:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
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Genesis 24:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
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Genesis 26:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
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Genesis 27:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
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Genesis 29:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
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Genesis 29:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
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Genesis 29:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
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Genesis 29:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
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Genesis 29:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
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Genesis 29:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
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Genesis 29:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
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Genesis 30:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
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Genesis 30:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
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Genesis 30:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
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Genesis 30:38 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
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Genesis 30:39 · BSB · 2 occurrences
they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
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Genesis 30:40 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
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Genesis 30:41 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.
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Genesis 30:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
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Genesis 30:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.
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Genesis 31:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
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Genesis 31:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.
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Genesis 31:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
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Genesis 31:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
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Genesis 31:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
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Genesis 31:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
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Genesis 31:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
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Genesis 31:43 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
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Genesis 32:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
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Source alternate reference: 32.6
Genesis 32:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
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Source alternate reference: 32.8
Genesis 33:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
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Genesis 34:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
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Genesis 37:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
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Genesis 37:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
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Genesis 37:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
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Genesis 38:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
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Genesis 38:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
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Genesis 38:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
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Genesis 45:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
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Genesis 46:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’
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Genesis 46:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
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Genesis 47:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”
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Genesis 47:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”
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Genesis 47:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
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