Strong's #4263: probaton (pronounced prob'-at-on)

probably neuter of a presumed derivative of 4260; something that walks forward (a quadruped), i.e. (specially), a sheep (literally or figuratively):--sheep(-fold).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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probaton

1) any four footed, tame animal accustomed to graze, small cattle

1a) a sheep, and so always in the NT

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: probably from a presumed. derivative of G4260

Citing in TDNT: 6:689, 936

Usage:

This word is used 42 times:

 

Matthew 7:15: "to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are"
Matthew 9:36: "they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd."
Matthew 10:6: "rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Matthew 10:16: "I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves:"
Matthew 12:11: "that shall have one sheep, and if it fall"
Matthew 12:12: "How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do"
Matthew 15:24: "but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Matthew 18:12: "man have a hundred sheep, and one of them"
Matthew 25:32: "one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:"
Matthew 25:33: "And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but"
Matthew 26:31: "the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad."
Mark 6:34: "because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and"
Mark 14:27: "the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered."
Luke 15:4: "you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of"
Luke 15:6: "for I have found my sheep which was lost."
John 2:14: "those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the"
John 2:15: "temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and"
John 10:1: "door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way,"
John 10:2: "the shepherd of the sheep."
John 10:3: "openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and"
John 10:3: "and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out."
John 10:4: "when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and"
John 10:4: "them, and the sheep follow him: for they know"
John 10:7: "the door of the sheep."
John 10:8: "robbers: but the sheep did not hear them."
John 10:11: "life for the sheep."
John 10:12: "whose own the sheep are not, seeth the"
John 10:12: "and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the"
John 10:12: "and scattereth the sheep."
John 10:13: "not for the sheep."
John 10:15: "my life for the sheep."
John 10:16: "And other sheep I have, which are not of"
John 10:26: "not of my sheep, as I said unto you."
John 10:27: "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,"
John 21:16: "unto him, Feed my sheep."
John 21:17: "Jesus saith unto him, Feed"
John 21:17: "Jesus saith unto him, Feed"
Acts 8:32: "this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like"
Romans 8:36: "the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
Hebrews 13:20: "that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,"
1 Peter 2:25: "For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned"
Revelation 18:13: "and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots,"