This word comes from the name of Sheep Gate.
Definition
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)
Traditional renderings: (small) cattle, flock ( -s), lamb ( -s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).
Traditional renderings: (small) cattle, flock ( -s), lamb ( -s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
274 total
- Genesis 4:2צֹ֔אן · of sheepLater she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
- Genesis 4:4צֹאנ֖וֹ · of his flock…while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
- Genesis 12:16צֹאן־ · sheepHe treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
- Genesis 13:5צֹאן־ · flocksNow Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
- Genesis 20:14צֹ֣אן · sheepSo Abimelech brought sheep and cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him.
- Genesis 21:27צֹ֣אן · sheepSo Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
- Genesis 21:28הַצֹּ֖אן · from the flockAbraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
- Genesis 24:35צֹ֤אן · sheep“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.
- Genesis 26:14צֹאן֙He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
- Genesis 27:9הַצֹּ֔אן · the flockGo 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.
- Genesis 29:2צֹאן֙ · of sheepHe 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.
- Genesis 29:3הַצֹּ֑אן · the sheepWhen 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.
- Genesis 29:6הַצֹּֽאן׃ · his sheep“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
- Genesis 29:7הַצֹּ֖אן · the sheep“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.”
- Genesis 29:8הַצֹּֽאן׃ · the sheepBut 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.”
- Genesis 29:9הַצֹּאן֙ · sheepWhile he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
- Genesis 29:10 (2×)צֹ֥אן · sheep; צֹ֥אן · sheepAs 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.
- Genesis 30:31צֹֽאנְךָ֖ · your flocks“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.
- Genesis 30:32צֹֽאנְךָ֜ · your flocksLet 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.
- Genesis 30:36צֹ֥אן · flocksThen he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
- Genesis 30:38 (2×)הַצֹּ֤אן · the flocks; הַצֹּ֔אן · So when the flocksThen 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,
- Genesis 30:39 (2×)הַצֹּ֖אן · they; הַצֹּ֔אן · young [that were]…they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.
- Genesis 30:40 (3×)הַצֹּ֧אן · the [rest]; בְּצֹ֣אן · flocks; צֹ֥אן · animalsJacob 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.
- Genesis 30:41 (2×)הַצֹּ֣אן · of the flock; הַצֹּ֖אן · of the animalsWhenever 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.
- Genesis 30:42הַצֹּ֖אן · But if the animalsBut 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.
- Genesis 30:43צֹ֣אן · flocksThus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.
- Genesis 31:4צֹאנֽוֹ׃ · where his flocks wereSo Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
- Genesis 31:8 (2×)הַצֹּ֖אן · flock; הַצֹּ֖אן · flockIf 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.
- Genesis 31:10 (2×)הַצֹּ֔אן · the flocks; הַצֹּ֔אן · the femalesWhen the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
- Genesis 31:12הַצֹּ֔אן · the flock‘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.
- Genesis 31:19צֹאנ֑וֹ · his sheepNow while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
- Genesis 31:38צֹאנְךָ֖ · of your flockI have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
- Genesis 31:41בְּצֹאנֶ֑ךָ · for your flocksThus 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!
- Genesis 31:43 (2×)וְהַצֹּ֣אן · and [these] flocks; צֹאנִ֔י · [are] my flocksBut 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?
- Genesis 32:5צֹ֖אן · flocksI 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.’”
- Genesis 32:7הַצֹּ֧אן · as well as the flocksIn great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
- Genesis 33:13 (2×)וְהַצֹּ֥אן · sheep; הַצֹּֽאן׃ · the animalsBut 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.
- Genesis 34:28צֹאנָ֥ם · their flocksThey took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
- Genesis 37:2בַּצֹּ֔אן · the flockThis 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.
- Genesis 37:12צֹ֥אן · flocksSome time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.