Strong's #6629: tso'n (pronounced tsone)
or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}; from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men):--(small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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tsô'n / tse'ôn
1) small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks
1a) small cattle (usually of sheep and goats)
1b) of multitude (simile)
1c) of multitude (metaphor)
Part of Speech: noun feminine collective
Relation: from an unused root meaning to migrate
Usage:
This word is used 274 times:
1 Chronicles 4:39: "of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks."
1 Chronicles 4:41: "because there was pasture there for their flocks."
1 Chronicles 5:21: "of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses"
1 Chronicles 12:40: "and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy"
1 Chronicles 17:7: "the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people"
1 Chronicles 21:17: "have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand,"
1 Chronicles 27:31: "And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance"
2 Chronicles 5:6: "him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told"
2 Chronicles 7:5: "and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated"
2 Chronicles 14:15: "the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 15:11: "oxen and seven thousand sheep."
2 Chronicles 17:11: "and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred"
2 Chronicles 18:2: "to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that"
2 Chronicles 18:16: "scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD"
2 Chronicles 29:33: "oxen and three thousand sheep."
2 Chronicles 30:24: "bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand"
2 Chronicles 30:24: "bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves."
2 Chronicles 31:6: "brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD"
2 Chronicles 32:29: "Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God"
2 Chronicles 35:7: "And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids,"
Ezra 10:19: "their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass."
Nehemiah 3:1: "the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up"
Nehemiah 3:32: "And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants."
Nehemiah 5:18: "was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once"
Nehemiah 10:36: "in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests"
Nehemiah 12:39: "of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison"
Job 1:3: "also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five"
Job 1:16: "from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only"
Job 21:11: "They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance."
Job 30:1: "fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock."
Job 42:12: "more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand"
Psalms 44:11: "Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen."
Psalms 44:22: "all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter."
Psalms 49:14: " Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;"
Psalms 65:13: "The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also"
Psalms 74:1: "forever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?"
Psalms 77:20: "Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron."
Psalms 78:52: "But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock."
Psalms 78:70: "David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:"
Psalms 79:13: "So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks forever: we will show forth thy praise"
Psalms 80:1: "of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth."
Psalms 95:7: "and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if ye will hear"
Psalms 100:3: "us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture."
Psalms 107:41: "Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock."
Psalms 114:4: "skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs."
Psalms 114:6: "that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?"
Psalms 144:13: "may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands"
Proverbs 27:23: "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds."
Ecclesiastes 2:7: "great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were"
Song of Solomon 1:8: "among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside"
