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
- Ezekiel 36:38 (2×)כְּצֹ֤אן; צֹ֣אן · with flocksLike the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 43:23הַצֹּ֖אן · the flockWhen you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
- Ezekiel 43:25הַצֹּ֖אן · the flockFor seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both unblemished.
- Ezekiel 45:15הַצֹּ֤אן · from [each] flockAnd one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Lord GOD.
- Hosea 5:6בְּצֹאנָ֣ם · with their flocksThey go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
- Joel 1:18הַצֹּ֖אן · of sheepHow the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
- Amos 6:4מִצֹּ֔אן · from the flockYou lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
- Amos 7:15הַצֹּ֑אן · the flockBut the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’
- Jonah 3:7וְהַצֹּ֗אן · or flockThen he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.
- Micah 2:12כְּצֹ֣אן · like sheepI will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.
- Micah 5:8צֹ֑אן · of sheepThen the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
- Micah 7:14צֹ֚אן · the flockShepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
- Habakkuk 3:17צֹ֔אן · though the sheepThough the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- Zephaniah 2:6צֹֽאן׃ · for sheepSo the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
- Zechariah 9:16כְּצֹ֣אן · as the flockOn that day the LORD their God will save them as the flock of His people; for like jewels in a crown they will sparkle over His land.
- Zechariah 10:2צֹ֔אן · sheepFor idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
- Zechariah 11:4צֹ֥אן · the flockThis is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,
- Zechariah 11:7 (3×)צֹ֣אן · the flock; הַצֹּ֑אן · of the flock; הַצֹּֽאן׃ · the flockSo I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
- Zechariah 11:11הַצֹּאן֙ · of the flockIt was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
- Zechariah 11:17הַצֹּ֔אן · the flockWoe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”
- Zechariah 13:7הַצֹּ֔אן · and the sheepAwake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.