Tson צֹאן

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Tson
צֹאן
Transliterationtson
Strong's numberH6629 (H6629G, H6629H)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechnoun
Glossflock
Occurrences274 in 247 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (52)

Tson (Hebrew צֹאן, Strong's H6629) is a Hebrew noun meaning “flock”. It occurs 274 times in 247 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H6629G: flock

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)

H6629H: Sheep (Gate)

This name means sheep and goats
Also named: probatikos (προβατικός "Sheep Gate" G4262)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVsheep (110), flock (84), flocks (54), cattle (15), lamb (1)
BSBsheep (78), flock (52), flocks (34), your flocks (14), my flock (13), their flocks (10), like sheep (8), your flock (5), like a flock (4), his sheep (3), animals (3), his flock (2), and 26 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Tson, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Jonah

Micah

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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