צֹאן
flock
also: small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flocks fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
84 distinct verses where H6629 appears in the Construct state, across 17 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 19 verses
- Genesis 4:4 צֹאנ֖/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat of it. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
- Genesis 29:10 צֹ֥אן צֹ֥אן n c bs cs n c bs cs It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
- Genesis 30:31 צֹֽאנְ/ךָ֖ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
- Genesis 30:32 צֹֽאנְ/ךָ֜ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
- Genesis 30:36 צֹ֥אן n c bs cs He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
- Genesis 30:40 הַ/צֹּ֧אן בְּ/צֹ֣אן צֹ֥אן ptcl def.art + n c bs prep + n c bs cs n c bs cs Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.
- Genesis 31:4 צֹאנֽ/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
- Genesis 31:19 צֹאנ֑/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
- Genesis 31:38 צֹאנְ/ךָ֖ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms These twenty years have I been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
- Genesis 31:41 בְּ/צֹאנֶ֑/ךָ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
- Genesis 31:43 וְ/הַ/צֹּ֣אן צֹאנִ֔/י conj + ptcl def.art + n c bs n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
- Genesis 34:28 צֹאנָ֥/ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;
- Genesis 37:12 צֹ֥אן n c bs cs His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
- Genesis 38:12 צֹאנ/וֹ֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
- Genesis 38:13 צֹאנֽ/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
- Genesis 45:10 וְ/צֹאנְ/ךָ֥ conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
- Genesis 46:32 צֹ֔אן וְ/צֹאנָ֧/ם n c bs conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'
- Genesis 47:1 וְ/צֹאנָ֤/ם conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen."
- Genesis 50:8 וְ/צֹאנָ֣/ם conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Exodus 8 verses
- Exodus 2:16 צֹ֥אן n c bs cs Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
- Exodus 2:17 צֹאנָֽ/ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
- Exodus 3:1 צֹ֛אן הַ/צֹּאן֙ n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.
- Exodus 10:9 בְּ/צֹאנֵ֤/נוּ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cp Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."
- Exodus 10:24 צֹאנְ/כֶ֥ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you."
- Exodus 12:32 צֹאנְ/כֶ֨ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"
- Exodus 20:24 צֹֽאנְ/ךָ֖ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
- Exodus 22:30 לְ/צֹאנֶ֑/ךָ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it me.
Deuteronomy 13 verses
- Deuteronomy 7:13 צֹאנֶ֔/ךָ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deuteronomy 8:13 וְ/צֹֽאנְ/ךָ֙ conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
- Deuteronomy 12:6 וְ/צֹאנְ/כֶֽם conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:
- Deuteronomy 12:17 וְ/צֹאנֶ֑/ךָ conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand;
- Deuteronomy 12:21 וּ/מִ/צֹּֽאנְ/ךָ֗ conj + prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
- Deuteronomy 14:23 וְ/צֹאנֶ֑/ךָ conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
- Deuteronomy 15:14 מִ/צֹּ֣אנְ/ךָ֔ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
- Deuteronomy 15:19 וּ/בְ/צֹֽאנְ/ךָ֙ צֹאנֶֽ/ךָ conj + prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
- Deuteronomy 18:4 צֹאנְ/ךָ֖ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
- Deuteronomy 28:4 צֹאנֶֽ/ךָ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
- Deuteronomy 28:18 צֹאנֶֽ/ךָ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
- Deuteronomy 28:31 צֹֽאנְ/ךָ֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
- Deuteronomy 28:51 צֹאנֶ֑/ךָ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Joshua 1 verse
1 Samuel 4 verses
- 1 Samuel 8:17 צֹאנְ/כֶ֖ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
- 1 Samuel 17:15 צֹ֥אן n c bs cs Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
- 1 Samuel 25:2 צֹ֥אן צֹאנ֖/וֹ n c bs n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:4 צֹאנֽ/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4:39 לְ/צֹאנָֽ/ם prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
- 1 Chronicles 4:41 לְ/צֹאנָ֖/ם prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 7 verses
- Psalms 44:11 כְּ/צֹ֣אן prep + n c bs cs You have made us like sheep for food, And have scattered us among the nations.
- Psalms 44:22 כְּ/צֹ֣אן prep + n c bs cs Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
- Psalms 74:1 בְּ/צֹ֣אן prep + n c bs cs God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- Psalms 79:13 וְ/צֹ֥אן conj + n c bs cs So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, Will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
- Psalms 95:7 וְ/צֹ֣אן conj + n c bs cs For he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, And the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
- Psalms 100:3 וְ/צֹ֣אן conj + n c bs cs Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Psalms 144:13 צֹאונֵ֣/נוּ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
Proverbs 1 verse
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 60:7 צֹ֤אן n c bs cs All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.
- Isaiah 61:5 צֹאנְ/כֶ֑ם n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
- Isaiah 63:11 צֹאנ֔/וֹ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?
Jeremiah 7 verses
- Jeremiah 3:24 צֹאנָ/ם֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
- Jeremiah 5:17 צֹאנְ/ךָ֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 2ms They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.
- Jeremiah 13:20 צֹ֖אן n c bs cs Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
- Jeremiah 23:1 צֹ֥אן n c bs cs Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 23:2 צֹאנִ/י֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 23:3 צֹאנִ֔/י n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
- Jeremiah 49:29 וְ/צֹאנָ/ם֙ conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!
Ezekiel 11 verses
- Ezekiel 34:6 צֹאנִ/י֙ צֹאנִ֔/י n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.
- Ezekiel 34:8 צֹאנִ֣/י צֹאנִ֨/י צֹאנִ֑/י צֹאנִ֖/י n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;
- Ezekiel 34:10 צֹאנִ֣/י צֹ֔אן צֹאנִ/י֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs n c bs n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
- Ezekiel 34:11 צֹאנִ֖/י n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
- Ezekiel 34:12 צֹאנ/וֹ֙ צֹאנִ֑/י n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
- Ezekiel 34:15 צֹאנִ/י֙ n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 34:17 צֹאנִ֔/י n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
- Ezekiel 34:19 וְ/צֹאנִ֑/י conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
- Ezekiel 34:22 לְ/צֹאנִ֔/י prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
- Ezekiel 34:31 צֹאנִ֛/י צֹ֥אן n c bs cs + sfx pers 1cs n c bs cs You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 36:38 כְּ/צֹ֣אן כְּ/צֹ֤אן צֹ֣אן prep + n c bs cs prep + n c bs cs n c bs cs As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Hosea 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
Zechariah 3 verses
- Zechariah 9:16 כְּ/צֹ֣אן prep + n c bs cs Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; For they are like the jewels of a crown, Lifted on high over his land.
- Zechariah 11:4 צֹ֥אן n c bs cs Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.
- Zechariah 11:7 צֹ֣אן הַ/צֹּ֑אן הַ/צֹּֽאן n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, צאן (tsôʼn) means “flock.” Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “small cattle”, “sheep”, and “sheep and goats”. With 247 verses in 30 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. First canonically at Genesis 4:2, it enters the text early. From the same root come צנא and צאנן. Dig into 247-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6629 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 247
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 247 distinct verses.
- 30 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 30 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #180
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 180 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 247 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 247 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 103 verses · 42%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 95 verses · 38%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 49 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sheep 97×, Flock 68×, Flocks 43×
- American Standard Version: Sheep 88×, Flock 63×, Flocks 40×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sheep 85×, Flock 70×, Flocks 62×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Flock 95×, Sheep 69×, Flock s 32×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6629 across 264 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 28 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 10 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6629 across 265 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 50 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6629 across 259 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 15 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6629 across 277 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 5 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. lit.
- a. small cattle, usually of sheep and goats in one flock (RobBR i. 477) Gn 30:31, 32 +; sheep specified also 21:28 (כִּבְשׂת הַצּ׳), 31:38 (אֵילֵי צ׳) +; sheep only 1 S 25:2 (+ עִזִּים); goats specified Gn 27:9; Je 50:8; צ׳ as yielding (1) animals for food Am 6:4 (כָּרִים), 1 S 14:32; 2 S 12:4; Ne 5:18 +; צ׳ מַאֲכָל ψ 44:12 (in sim.); (2) wool Gn 31:19 + (v. [גָּזַז], גֵּז); (3) milk, חֲלֵב צ׳ Dt 32:14 (? goats’ milk, cf. Pr 27:27); (4) sacrif. victims Gn 4:4 (J), Lv 1:2, 10; 3:6; Nu 15:3 (all P), 22:40 (E), Dt 12:6, 17, 21 + often; so צֹאן קָדָשִׁים Ez 36:38a, cf. בְּכוֹרֵי בְקָרֵינוּ וְצֹאנֵינוּ Ne 10:37; in gen. as property (often + בָּקָר, etc.) Gn 12:16; 13:5; 24:35 Jb 1:3; 42:12 + often (v. also ii. [עַשְׁתָּרוֹת]); gift Gn 20:14; 21:27; 38:17 (goat), Dt 15:14; 2 Ch 17:11; booty 1 S 15:9, 15 +. e.g. Genesis 30:31
- b. צ׳ sometimes of a definite number of animals (i.e. as pl. of שֶׂה, etc.): two Is 7:21, four Ex 21:37 (larger numbers v. 1 S 25:2, 5, 18; Nu 31:32, 36; Ne 5:18; Jb 1:3; 42:12 supr.).—Vid. also בֵּן 7 b; גְּדֵרָה, מִכְלָה, מַרְבֵּץ, נָוֶה, עֵדֶר; כֶּלֶב, רֹעֶה, שַׁעַר. e.g. Isaiah 7:21
- 2. sim. of multitude Ez 36:37, 38, cf. ψ 107:41; of children Jb 21:11; of dead, with death as shepherd ψ 49:15; of (shepherdless) Isr. Nu 27:17; 1 K 22:17 = 2 Ch 18:16; Zc 10:2; 13:7, wandering in sin Is 53:6; of Isr. led by י׳ ψ 77:21; 78:52; 80:2, cf. Zc 9:16 (on text v. We Now); Ez 34:12; of Isr. in distress, כְּצ׳ טִבְחָה ψ 44:23, cf. (of wicked) צ׳ לְטִבְחָה Je 12:3; of scattered Bab. Is 13:14. e.g. Ezekiel 36:37
- 3. metaph. of multitude, צ׳ אָדָם Ez 36:38; of Isr. 2 S 24:17 = 1 Ch 21:17; Je 23:1, 2, 3; Ez 24:5, and especially sustained fig. 34:2, 3 + 17 times 34, also Zc 11:7, 17; צ׳ אֹבְדוֹת Je 50:6, צ׳ תִּפְאַרְתֵּךְ 13:20; of Isr. under י׳’s care, (-וֹ, י—ִ) צ׳ מַרְעִיתֶ֑ךָ ψ 74:1; 79:13; 100:3; Ez 34:31, also צ׳ יָדוֹ ψ 95:7 (‖ עַם־מַרְעִיתוֹ; read perhaps צ׳ מַרְעִיתוֹ, עַם יָדוֹ, so Che al.); צ׳ נַחֲלָתֶ֑ךָ Mi 7:14; also in combinations: אַדִּירֵי הַצּ׳ Je 25:34, 35, 36, צ׳ חַהֲרֵגָה Zc 11:4, 7 (cf. ψ 44:23), עֲנִיֵּי הַצּ׳ v 7, 11 (all of Isr.); of Edom צְעִירֵי הַצּ׳ Je 49:20; 50:45. e.g. Ezekiel 36:38
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.coll.f. Gn 30:36 (poss. m. v 39a +, KöSynt. § 247 g, but dub., v 39b c. vb. fpl., as usually; in 1 S 15:14 join הַזֶּה with קוֹל; v. further Albr ZAW xv (1895), 316 ff.) small cattle, sheep and goats, flock, flocks;—צ׳ abs. Gn 4:2 +, cstr. 29:9 +; sf. צֹאנוֹ 4:4 +; צֹאנֵנוּ Ex 10:9, צֹאונֵנוּ ψ 144:13; as pl. צֹאנֵינוּ Ne 10:37 van d. H. Gi (not Baer); s. [צֹנֶא] צֹנֶה p. 856, etc.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to migrate
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
צֹאן
- (b. h.) flock, small cattle. Gen. R. s. 73 צֹאנוֹ של לבן Laban’s flock. Gen. R. s. 42 אם אין תישים אין צ׳ אם אין צ׳ וכ׳ where there are no bucks, there is no flock, and where there is no flock, there is no shepherd; Lev. R. s. 11; Esth. R. introd.; a. fr.—צ׳ ברזל, v. בַּרְזֶל.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 117 distinct written forms H6629 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 57 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 231 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 247 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 4:2
- Exodus 2:16
- Leviticus 1:2
- Numbers 11:22
- Deuteronomy 7:13
- Joshua 7:24
- 1 Samuel 8:17
- 2 Samuel 7:8
- 1 Kings 1:9
- 2 Kings 5:26
- 1 Chronicles 4:39
- 2 Chronicles 5:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
