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
- 1 Chronicles 4:39לְצֹאנָֽם׃ · for their flocks…and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.
- 1 Chronicles 4:41לְצֹאנָ֖ם · for their flocksThese who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings as well as the Meunites who were there, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.
- 1 Chronicles 5:21וְצֹ֗אן · sheepThey seized the livestock of the Hagrites—50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took 100,000 captives,
- 1 Chronicles 12:40וְצֹ֖אן · oxenAnd their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 17:7הַצֹּ֑אן · the flockNow 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.
- 1 Chronicles 21:17הַצֹּ֖אן · sheepAnd David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”
- 1 Chronicles 27:31הַצֹּ֖אן · the flocksJaziz the Hagrite was in charge of the flocks. All these officials were in charge of King David’s property.
- 2 Chronicles 5:6צֹ֣אן · sheepThere, 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.
- 2 Chronicles 7:5וְצֹ֕אן · sheepAnd King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 14:15צֹ֤אן · sheepThey also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and carried off many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 15:11וְצֹ֖אן · sheepAt that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep from all the plunder they had brought back.
- 2 Chronicles 17:11צֹ֕אן · from their flocksSome Philistines also brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat, and the Arabs brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats from their flocks.
- 2 Chronicles 18:2צֹ֤אן · sheepAnd some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.
- 2 Chronicles 18:16כַּצֹּ֕אן · like sheepSo 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.’”
- 2 Chronicles 29:33וְצֹ֖אן · sheepAnd the consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.
- 2 Chronicles 30:24 (2×)צֹאן֒ס · sheep; וְצֹ֖אן · sheepFor Hezekiah king of Judah contributed a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the officials contributed a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly, and a great number of priests consecrated themselves.
- 2 Chronicles 31:6וָצֹ֔אן · and flocksAnd the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things consecrated to the LORD their God, and they laid them in large heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 32:29צֹ֥אן · of sheepHe made cities for himself, and he acquired herds of sheep and cattle in abundance, for God gave him very great wealth.
- 2 Chronicles 35:7צֹ֞אן · flocks [and herds]From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.
- Ezra 10:19צֹ֖אן · from the flockThey pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
- Nehemiah 3:1הַצֹּ֔אן · At the SheepAt the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.
- Nehemiah 3:32הַצֹּ֔אן · and the SheepAnd between the upper room above the corner and the Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and merchants made repairs.
- Nehemiah 5:18צֹ֠אן · sheepEach day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.
- Nehemiah 10:36וְצֹאנֵ֗ינוּ · and flocksAnd we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
- Nehemiah 12:39הַצֹּ֑אן · as the Sheep…over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.
- Job 1:3צֹ֜אן · sheep…and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
- Job 1:16בַּצֹּ֛אן · the sheepWhile he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Job 21:11כַ֭צֹּאן · like a flockThey send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
- Job 30:1צֹאנִֽי׃ · my sheep“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
- Job 42:12צֹ֗אן · sheepSo the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
- Psalm 44:11כְּצֹ֣אן · as sheepYou have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
- Psalm 44:22כְּצֹ֣אן · as sheepYet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Psalm 49:14כַּצֹּ֤אן׀ · Like sheepLike sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
- Psalm 65:13הַצֹּ֗אן · with flocksThe pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.
- Psalm 74:1בְּצֹ֣אן · against the sheepA Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
- Psalm 77:20כַצֹּ֣אן · like a flockYou led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Psalm 78:52כַּצֹּ֣אן · like sheepHe led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
- Psalm 78:70צֹֽאן׃He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
- Psalm 79:13וְצֹ֥אן · the sheepThen we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
- Psalm 80:1כַּצֹּ֣אן · like a flockFor the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
- Psalm 95:7וְצֹ֣אן · the sheepFor He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
- Psalm 100:3וְצֹ֣אן · and the sheepKnow that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- Psalm 107:41כַּ֝צֹּ֗אן · like flocksBut He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
- Psalm 114:4צֹֽאן׃…the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- Psalm 114:6צֹֽאן׃O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
- Psalm 144:13צֹאונֵ֣נוּ · our flocksOur storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
- Proverbs 27:23צֹאנֶ֑ךָ · of your flocksBe sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;
- Ecclesiastes 2:7וָצֹ֤אן · and flocksI acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,
- Song of Solomon 1:8הַצֹּ֗אן · of the flockIf you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.