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Strong's #6629 - צְאוֹן
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks
- small cattle (usually of sheep and goats)
- of multitude (simile)
- of multitude (metaphor)
- Book
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this Strong's Number
1405) ny (תסנ TsN) AC: ? CO: Sheep AB: ?
H) eny (תסנה TsNH) AC: ? CO: Sheep AB: ?
gm ) enfy (תסונה TsWNH) - Sheep: KJV (2): sheep - Strongs: H6792 (צֹנֶה)
J) nfy (תסונ TsWN) AC: ? CO: Sheep AB: ?
Nf ) nfy (תסונ TsWN) - Flock: [df: Nwau Nau] KJV (274): flock, sheep, cattle, lamb - Strongs: H6629 (צְאוֹן)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 literally
a. small cattle, usually of sheep and goats in one flock (Rob BR i. 477) Genesis 30:31,32 +; sheep specified also Genesis 21:28 (׳כִּבְשׂת הַצּ), 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 36:38a, 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 34:2,317t. 34, also Zechariah 11:7,17; אֹבְדוֺת׳צ Jeremiah 50:6, תִּפְאַרְתֵךְ׳צ Jeremiah 13:20; of Israel under ׳י s care, (וֺ-, יִ֯) מַרְעִיתֶ֑ךָד׳צ Psalm 74:1; Psalm 79:13; Psalm 100:3; Ezekiel 34:31, also יָדוֺ׳צ Psalm 95:7("" מַרְעִיתוֺעַםֿ; read perhaps מַרְעִיתוֺ׳צ, צַם יָדוֺ, so Che and others); נַחֲלָתֶךָ׳צ Micah 7:14; also in combinations: ׳אַדִּירֵי הַצֵּ Jeremiah 25:34,35,36, חַהֲרֵגָה׳צ Zechariah 11:4,7 (compare Psalm 44:23), ׳עֲנִיֵּי הַצּ Psalm 44:7; Psalm 44:11 (all of Israel); of Edom ׳צְעִירֵי הַ צּ Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45.