probaton · sheep

What it means

probaton (πρόβατον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sheep”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A gentle animal that lives in a flock and needs a shepherd.
2. The people a shepherd cares for, God's people.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sheep ×38
• sheepfold ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×11
• Mark×2
• Luke×2
• John×19
• Acts×1
• Romans×1
• Hebrews×1
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 7:15

  “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

• Matthew 9:36

  Seeing the crowds, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and cast down, like sheep that do not have a shepherd.

• Matthew 10:6

  but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

• Matthew 10:16

  Look, I am sending you like sheep among wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

• Matthew 12:11

  But he said to them, “What man will there be among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

• Matthew 12:12

  How much more valuable, then, is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

• Matthew 15:24

  But he answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

• Matthew 18:12

  What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is going astray?

• Matthew 25:32

  And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another, just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

• Matthew 25:33

  and he will set the sheep at his right, but the goats at the left.

• Matthew 26:31

  Then Jesus says to them, “You will all fall away because of me on this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

• Mark 6:34

  And going ashore, he saw a large crowd, and he was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

• Mark 14:27

  And Jesus says to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

• Luke 15:4

  “What man among you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he finds it?

• Luke 15:6

  And when he comes into the house, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’

• John 2:14

  And in the temple he found those who were selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting there.

• John 2:15

  And making a whip out of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle; and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

• John 10:1

  “Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold through the gate but climbs in another way, he is a thief and a bandit.

• John 10:2

  But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

• John 10:3

  To him the gatekeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

• John 10:4

  When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

• John 10:7

  So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate of the sheep.

• John 10:8

  All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep did not listen to them.

• John 10:11

  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

• John 10:12

  The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters them.

• John 10:13

  He flees because he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep.

• John 10:15

  just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

• John 10:16

  And I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

• John 10:26

  but you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

• John 10:27

  My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

• John 21:16

  He says to him again, a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He says to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I hold you dear.” He says to him, “Shepherd my sheep.”

• John 21:17

  He says to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you hold me dear?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you hold me dear?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I hold you dear.” Jesus says to him, “Feed my sheep.

• Acts 8:32

  Now the passage of Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to slaughter, and like a lamb silent before the one who shears it, so he does not open his mouth.

• Romans 8:36

  As it is written: For your sake we are being put to death all the day; we were counted as sheep for slaughter.

• Hebrews 13:20

  Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

• 1 Peter 2:25

  For you were like sheep going astray, but you have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

• Revelation 18:13

  and cinnamon and amomum and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and horses and carriages and bodies, and souls of human beings.

And 2 more times.