STRONGS NUMBER H6629


Word Summary
tson: small cattle, sheep and goats, flock
Original Word: צאֹן
Transliteration: tson
Phonetic Spelling: (tsone)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: small cattle, sheep and goats, flock
Meaning: small cattle, sheep and goats, flock
Strong's Concordance
small cattle, flock, lamb, sheepcote,

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

H6629. tson

צאֹן273 collective noun feminineGenesis 30:36 (possibly masculine 30:39 a +, KöSynt. § 247 g, but dubious, 30:39b with verb feminine plural, as usually; in 1 Samuel 15:14 join הַוֶּה‎ with קוֺל‎; see further AlbrZAW xv (1895), 316 ff.) small cattle, sheep and goats, flock, flocks; — ׳צ‎ absolute Genesis 4:2 +; construct 29:9 +; suffix צאֹנוֺ4:4 +; צאֹנֵנוּExodus 10:9, צאֹונֵוּPsalm 144:13; as plural צאֹנֵינוֺNehemiah 10:37 van d. H. Gi (not Baer; very late, si vera lectio), etc.; —

1 literally

a. small cattle, usually of sheep and goats in one flock (RobBR i. 477) Genesis 30:31-32, +; sheep specified also 21:28 (הַצּ ׳כִּבְשׂת‎), 31:28 (צ ׳אֵילֵי‎) +; sheep only 1 Samuel 25:2 (+עִוִּים‎); goats specified Genesis 27:9; Jeremiah 50:8; ׳צ‎ as yielding (1) animals for food Amos 6:4 (בָּרִים‎), 1 Samuel 14:32; 2 Samuel 12:4; Nehemiah 5:18 +; ׳צ מַאְַבָלPsalm 44:12 (in simile); (2) wool Genesis 31:19 + (see [ גָּזַז‎], גֵּז‎); (3) milk, צ ׳חֲלֵבDeuteronomy 32:14 (? goats' milk, compare Proverbs 27:27); (4) sacrificial victims Genesis 4:4 (J), Leviticus 1:2, 10; 3:6; Numbers 15:3 (all P), 22:40 (E), Deuteronomy 12:6, 17, 21 + often; so קָדָשִׁים צאֹןEzekiel 36:38 a, compare בְּכוֺרֵי וְצאֹנֵינוּ בְקָרֵינוּNehemiah 10:37; in General as property (often + בָּקָר‎, etc.) Genesis 12:16; 13:5; 24:35; Job 1:3; 42:12 + often (see also II. [עַשְׁתָּרוֺת‎]); gift Genesis 20:14; 21:27; 38:17 (goat), Deuteronomy 15:14; 2 Chronicles 17:11; booty 1 Samuel 15:9, 15 + .

b. ׳צ‎ sometimes of a definite number of animals (i.e. as plural of שֶׂה‎, etc.): two Isaiah 7:21, four Exodus 21:37 (larger numbers see 1 Samuel 25:2, 5, 18; Numbers 31:32, 36; Nehemiah 5:18; Job 1:3; 42:12 above). — See also בֵּן7b; עֵדֶר נָוֶה, מַרְבֵּץ, מִכְלָה, גְּדֵרָה,‎; שַׁצֵר רֹצֶה, כֶלֶב,‎.

2 simile of multitude Ezekiel 36:37-38, compare Psalm 107:41; of children Job 21:11; of dead, with death as shepherd Psalm 49:15; of (shepherdless) Israel Numbers 27:17; 1 Kings 22:17 2 Chronicles 18:16; Zechariah 10:2; 13:7, wandering in sin Isaiah 53:6; of Israel led by ׳י‎ Psalm 77:21; Psalm 78:52; 80:2, compare Zechariah 9:16 (on text see We Now); Ezekiel 34:12; of Israel in distress, ׳כְּצ טִבְחָתPsalm 44:23, compare (of wicked) ׳צ לְטִבְתָהJeremiah 12:3; of scattered Babylonian Isaiah 13:14.

3 metaphor of multitude, ׳צ אָרָםEzekiel 36:38; of Israel 2 Samuel 24:17 = 1 Chronicles 21:17; Jeremiah 23:1-2, 3; Ezekiel 24:5, and especially sustained figurative 34:2, 317t. 34, also Zechariah 11:7, 17; ׳צ אֹבְדוֺתJeremiah 50:6, ׳צ תִּפְאַרְתֵךְ13:20; of Israel under ׳י‎s care, (וֺ‎-, יִ֯‎) ׳צ מַרְעִיתֶ֑ךָדPsalm 74:1; 79:13; 100:3; Ezekiel 34:31, also ׳צ יָדוֺPsalm 95:7("" מַרְעִיתוֺעַםֿ‎; read perhaps יָדוֺ צַם ׳צ, מַרְעִיתוֺ‎, so Che and others); ׳צ נַחֲלָתֶךָMicah 7:14; also in combinations: הַצֵּ ׳אַדִּירֵיJeremiah 25:34-35, 36, ׳צ חַהֲרֵגָהZechariah 11:4, 7 (compare Psalm 44:23), הַצּ ׳עֲנִיֵּי44:7; 44:11 (all of Israel); of Edom צּ הַ ׳צְעִירֵיJeremiah 49:20; 50:45.