צֹאן

tsonflock
hebrewOld TestamentNoun274 occurrences30 books247 verses
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).

Glossary entries

Sheep Gate

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

274 total
  1. Deuteronomy 8:13וְצֹֽאנְךָ֙ · and flocks
    …and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
  2. Deuteronomy 12:6וְצֹאנְכֶֽם׃ · and flocks
    To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
  3. Deuteronomy 12:17וְצֹאנֶ֑ךָ · or flocks
    Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
  4. Deuteronomy 12:21וּמִצֹּֽאנְךָ֗ · or flock
    If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
  5. Deuteronomy 14:23וְצֹאנֶ֑ךָ · and flocks
    And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
  6. Deuteronomy 14:26וּבַצֹּ֗אן · sheep
    Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.
  7. Deuteronomy 15:14מִצֹּ֣אנְךָ֔ · from your flock
    You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.
  8. Deuteronomy 15:19 (2×)וּבְצֹֽאנְךָ֙ · and flocks; צֹאנֶֽךָ׃ · of your flock
    You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.
  9. Deuteronomy 16:2צֹ֣אן · or flock
    You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.
  10. Deuteronomy 18:4צֹאנְךָ֖ · from your flock
    You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
  11. Deuteronomy 28:4צֹאנֶֽךָ׃ · of your flocks
    The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
  12. Deuteronomy 28:18צֹאנֶֽךָ׃ · of your flocks
    The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
  13. Deuteronomy 28:31צֹֽאנְךָ֙ · Your flock
    Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
  14. Deuteronomy 28:51צֹאנֶ֑ךָ · of your flocks
    They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
  15. Deuteronomy 32:14צֹ֗אן · from the flock
    …with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
  16. Joshua 7:24צֹאנ֤וֹ · sheep
    Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen and donkeys and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned, and brought them to the Valley of Achor.
  17. 1 Samuel 8:17צֹאנְכֶ֖ם · of your flocks
    He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
  18. 1 Samuel 14:32צֹ֧אן · sheep
    So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate meat with the blood still in it.
  19. 1 Samuel 15:9הַצֹּאן֩ · of the sheep
    Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
  20. 1 Samuel 15:14הַצֹּ֥אן · of sheep
    But Samuel replied, “Then what is this bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle that I hear?”
  21. 1 Samuel 15:15הַצֹּאן֙ · sheep
    Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”
  22. 1 Samuel 15:21צֹ֥אן · sheep
    The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”
  23. 1 Samuel 16:11בַּצֹּ֑אן · the sheep
    And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
  24. 1 Samuel 16:19בַּצֹּֽאן׃ · is with the sheep
    So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”
  25. 1 Samuel 17:15צֹ֥אן · sheep
    …but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
  26. 1 Samuel 17:20הַצֹּאן֙ · the flock
    So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
  27. 1 Samuel 17:28הַצֹּ֤אן · sheep
    Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
  28. 1 Samuel 17:34בַּצֹּ֑אן · sheep
    David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
  29. 1 Samuel 24:3הַצֹּ֤אן · the sheepfolds
    Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
  30. 1 Samuel 25:2 (2×)צֹ֥אן · sheep; צֹאנ֖וֹ
    Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
  31. 1 Samuel 25:4צֹאנֽוֹ׃ · sheep
    While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.
  32. 1 Samuel 25:16הַצֹּֽאן׃ · our sheep
    They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
  33. 1 Samuel 25:18צֹ֤אן · sheep
    Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
  34. 1 Samuel 27:9צֹ֨אן · the flocks
    Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,
  35. 1 Samuel 30:20הַצֹּ֖אן · the flocks
    And he took all the flocks and herds, which his men drove ahead of the other livestock, calling out, “This is David’s plunder!”
  36. 2 Samuel 7:8הַצֹּ֑אן · the flock
    Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
  37. 2 Samuel 12:2צֹ֥אן · sheep
    The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,
  38. 2 Samuel 12:4מִצֹּאנוֹ֙ · one of his own sheep
    Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
  39. 2 Samuel 17:29וְצֹאן֙ · sheep
    …honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
  40. 2 Samuel 24:17הַצֹּ֖אן · sheep
    When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
  41. 1 Kings 1:9צֹ֤אן · sheep
    And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.
  42. 1 Kings 1:19וְצֹאן֮ · and sheep
    And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he has not invited your servant Solomon.
  43. 1 Kings 1:25וְצֹאן֮ · and sheep
    For today he has gone down and sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
  44. 1 Kings 4:23צֹ֑אן · sheep
    …ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
  45. 1 Kings 8:5צֹ֣אן · sheep
    There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
  46. 1 Kings 8:63וְצֹ֕אן · sheep
    And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
  47. 1 Kings 22:17כַּצֹּ֕אן · like sheep
    So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
  48. 2 Kings 5:26וְצֹ֣אן · sheep
    But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?