צֹאן

tson · flock

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6629 · appears 274 times in the Bible

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What it means

tson (צֹאן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flock”.

Of sheep and goats, small livestock; figuratively, a people led like a flock.

How to say it

tson

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

A flock of sheep and goats.
A people led like a flock.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

A flock of small livestock: sheep and goats together. BDB defines it as a collective name for a flock of sheep or goats, and figuratively, of men.

The shepherd's flock Genesis 4:2 Genesis 29:9 Exodus 3:1
Small livestock in the sacrifices Leviticus 1:10
The people as God's sheep Psalms 100:3
The flock that the youngest tends 1 Samuel 16:11

How we translate it

“Sheep” 113 times, “flock” 109, “flocks” 48. In the laws of sacrifice it says “from the flock”, and the text itself then names what it includes, “from the lambs or from the goats” (Leviticus 1:10); in the stories of shepherds, “flock” or “sheep”.

How it is translated

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

sheep ×113
flock ×109
flocks ×48
like lambs ×2
sheepfolds ×1
sheepshearers ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

צַאֲנָן tsaanan · Zaanan

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

Where it appears

Genesis 4:2
And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain was a worker of the ground.
Genesis 4:4
And Abel also brought, he too, from the firstborn of his flock and from their fat. And YHWH regarded Abel and his offering,
Genesis 12:16
He dealt well with Abram because of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male slaves, female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 13:5
Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheep, cattle, and tents.
Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech took sheep and cattle, and male slaves and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and he returned to him Sarah his wife.
Genesis 21:27
Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
Genesis 21:28
Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Genesis 24:35
YHWH has blessed my lord greatly, and he has become great. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, camels and donkeys.
Genesis 26:14
He had flocks and herds and many servants, and the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 27:9
Go, please, to the flock and get me from there two good young goats, and I will make them into tasty food for your father, such as he loves.
Genesis 29:2
He looked, and look, a well in the field, and look, there three flocks of sheep were lying beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the mouth of the well was large.
Genesis 29:3
When all the flocks were gathered there, they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put back the stone on the mouth of the well in its place.
Genesis 29:6
He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well; and look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.”
Genesis 29:7
He said, “Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep and go, pasture them.”
Genesis 29:8
They said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”
Genesis 29:9
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with the sheep that belonged to her father, for she was a shepherdess.
Genesis 29:10
When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.
Genesis 30:31
He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do for me this thing, I will again pasture your flock and keep it.
Genesis 30:32
Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there every animal speckled and spotted, and every dark animal among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such will be my wages.
Genesis 30:36
And he put a journey of three days between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was pasturing the rest of the flocks of Laban.
Genesis 30:38
He set the rods that he had peeled in the channels, in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink, in front of the flocks; and they mated when they came to drink.
Genesis 30:39
The flocks mated in front of the rods, and the flocks bore young striped, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 30:40
Jacob separated the lambs, and he turned the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the dark in the flock of Laban; and he made for himself flocks by themselves and did not put them with the flock of Laban.
Genesis 30:41
Whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would put the rods before the eyes of the flock in the channels, so that they might mate among the rods;
Genesis 30:42
but when the flock was feeble, he would not put them there; so the feeble were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
Genesis 30:43
The man increased exceedingly, and he had many flocks, female slaves and male slaves, camels and donkeys.
Genesis 31:4
So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock.
Genesis 31:8
If he said this, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said this, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
Genesis 31:10
It happened at the time when the flock was in heat that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and look, the male goats that were mounting the flock were streaked, speckled, and mottled.
Genesis 31:12
He said, ‘Lift up, please, your eyes and see: all the male goats that are mounting the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
Genesis 31:19
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that belonged to her father.
Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have had in your house: I served you fourteen years for the two of your daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 31:43
Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the sons are my sons, the flock is my flock, and all that you see is mine. But to my daughters what can I do to these today, or to their children whom they have borne?
Genesis 32:5
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male slaves, and slave women; and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.’”
Genesis 32:7
Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, the cattle, and the camels, into two camps.
Genesis 33:13
He said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the cattle that are nursing their young are in my care; if they are driven hard one day, all the flock will die.
Genesis 34:28
Their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, what was in the city and what was in the field, they took.
Genesis 37:2
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought bad reports about them to their father.
Genesis 37:12
His brothers went to pasture their father’s flock at Shechem.

And 234 more times.