צֹאן tson

Hebrew word for “flock” · Strong’s H6629 · used 274 times in 247 verses

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Meaning

1) small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks;

Senses in the lexicon

• flock (271)
• Sheep (Gate) (3)

How it is translated

Glosses given for tson in context, with how often each is used:

• flock 114
• sheep 105
• flocks 32
• like sheep 10
• like flock 7
• among the flock 1
• ¿ a flock 1
• some of flock 1
• one of own sheep 1
• like the sheep 1
• like the flock 1

Where it is used

Also in 18 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 34 (12), Genesis 30 (9), Genesis 31 (8), Genesis 29 (7), Numbers 31 (6), Genesis 47 (4), Deuteronomy 28 (4), 1 Samuel 15 (4), 1 Samuel 17 (4), 1 Samuel 25 (4)

Forms

• הצאן 79
• צאן 72
• וצאן 19
• כצאן 18
• צאני 17
• צאנך 13
• צאנו 10
• בצאן 8
• וצאנך 4
• וצאנם 4

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tson more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• בָּקָר baqar “cattle” 79
• רָעָה raah “to pasture” 48
• זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 16
• חֲמוֹר chamor “donkey” 15
• מִקְנֶה miqneh “livestock” 14
• מִן־ min “from” 26
• גָּמָל gamal “camel” 13
• עֵדֶר eder “flock” 12
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 23
• אַיִל ayil “ram” 13
• גַּם gam “also” 17
• עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 17

Key verses

The verses using tson that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 3:1 — Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of…
• Exodus 20:24 — An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places…
• Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;…
• Psalms 74:1 — [Maschil of Asaph.] O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
• Psalms 80:1 — [To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.] Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest…
• Psalms 100:3 — Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
• Isaiah 53:6 — All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Isaiah 63:11 — Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he…
• Jeremiah 31:12 — Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for…
• Ezekiel 34:2 — Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of…
• Micah 7:14 — Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as…
• Zechariah 13:7 — Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.