# צֹאן (tson)

Israeli respelling: tson. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6629. 247 Old Testament occurrences.

a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)

King James renderings: (small) cattle, flock ([phrase] -s), lamb ([phrase] -s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tson-h6629

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/4/2) — And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
- [Genesis 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/4/4) — And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
- [Genesis 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/16) — And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and c…
- [Genesis 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/13/5) — And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
- [Genesis 20:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/14) — And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
- [Genesis 21:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/27) — And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
- [Genesis 21:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/28) — And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
- [Genesis 24:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/35) — And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and men…
- [Genesis 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/14) — For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
- [Genesis 27:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/27/9) — Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he love…
- [Genesis 29:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/2) — And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the…
- [Genesis 29:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/3) — And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again u…
- [Genesis 29:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/6) — And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
- [Genesis 29:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/7) — And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed th…
- [Genesis 29:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/8) — And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the…
- [Genesis 29:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/9) — And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.
- [Genesis 29:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/10) — And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Ja…
- [Genesis 30:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/31) — And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed…
- [Genesis 30:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/32) — I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the shee…
- [Genesis 30:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/36) — And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
- [Genesis 30:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/38) — And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they s…
- [Genesis 30:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/39) — And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- [Genesis 30:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/40) — And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he p…
- [Genesis 30:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/41) — And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, th…
- [Genesis 30:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/42) — But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- [Genesis 30:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/43) — And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
- [Genesis 31:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/4) — And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
- [Genesis 31:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/8) — If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire…
- [Genesis 31:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/10) — And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leap…
- [Genesis 31:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/12) — And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have se…
- [Genesis 31:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/19) — And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
- [Genesis 31:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/38) — This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
- [Genesis 31:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/41) — Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast…
- [Genesis 31:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/43) — And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattl…
- [Genesis 32:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/32/5) — And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
- [Genesis 32:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/32/7) — Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into…
- [Genesis 33:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/33/13) — And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should over…
- [Genesis 34:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/28) — They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
- [Genesis 37:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/2) — These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the so…
- [Genesis 37:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/12) — And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
- [Genesis 37:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/14) — And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sen…
- [Genesis 38:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/12) — And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he…
- [Genesis 38:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/13) — And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
- [Genesis 38:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/17) — And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
- [Genesis 45:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/45/10) — And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy fl…
- [Genesis 46:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/46/32) — And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they…
- [Genesis 46:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/46/34) — That ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwe…
- [Genesis 47:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/1) — Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come…
- [Genesis 47:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/3) — And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our…
- [Genesis 47:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/4) — They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine…
- [Genesis 47:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/17) — And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the…
- [Genesis 50:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/8) — And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left…
- [Exodus 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/16) — Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
- [Exodus 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/17) — And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
- [Exodus 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/19) — And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
- [Exodus 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/1) — Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to…
- [Exodus 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/9/3) — Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and…
- [Exodus 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/9) — And 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 w…
- [Exodus 10:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/24) — And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go…
- [Exodus 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/21) — Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the p…
- [Exodus 12:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/32) — Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
- [Exodus 12:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/38) — And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
- [Exodus 20:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/20/24) — An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine o…
- [Exodus 22:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/1) — If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
- [Exodus 22:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/30) — Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
- [Exodus 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/3) — And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that…
- [Leviticus 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/1/2) — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of th…
- [Leviticus 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/1/10) — And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemis…
- [Leviticus 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/3/6) — And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
- [Leviticus 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/6) — And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the go…
- [Leviticus 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/15) — If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD…
- [Leviticus 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/18) — And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest sh…
- [Leviticus 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/6/6) — And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offerin…
- [Leviticus 22:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/22/21) — And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it sh…
- [Leviticus 27:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/32) — And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
- [Numbers 11:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/22) — Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffi…
- [Numbers 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/3) — And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in you…
- [Numbers 22:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/22/40) — And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
- [Numbers 27:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/27/17) — Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregat…
- [Numbers 31:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/28) — And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beev…
- [Numbers 31:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/30) — And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks,…
- [Numbers 31:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/32) — And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand…
- [Numbers 31:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/36) — And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and fi…
- [Numbers 31:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/37) — And the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
- [Numbers 31:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/43) — (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
- [Numbers 32:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/16) — And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
- [Numbers 32:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/36) — And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
- [Deuteronomy 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/13) — And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, an…
- [Deuteronomy 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/13) — And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
- [Deuteronomy 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/6) — And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and…
- [Deuteronomy 12:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/17) — Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock,…
- [Deuteronomy 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/21) — If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flo…
- [Deuteronomy 14:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/23) — And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine,…
- [Deuteronomy 14:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/26) — And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for wh…
- [Deuteronomy 15:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/14) — Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath…
- [Deuteronomy 15:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/19) — All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the fi…
- [Deuteronomy 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/2) — Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to p…
- [Deuteronomy 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/18/4) — The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
- [Deuteronomy 28:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/4) — Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks…
- [Deuteronomy 28:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/18) — Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
- [Deuteronomy 28:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/31) — Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, an…
- [Deuteronomy 28:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/51) — And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn,…
- [Deuteronomy 32:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/14) — Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and tho…
- [Joshua 7:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/24) — And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and…
- [1 Samuel 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/8/17) — He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
- [1 Samuel 14:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/32) — And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the…
- [1 Samuel 15:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/9) — But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good,…
- [1 Samuel 15:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/14) — And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
- [1 Samuel 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/15) — And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto t…
- [1 Samuel 15:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/21) — But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the L…
- [1 Samuel 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/11) — And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. An…
- [1 Samuel 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/19) — Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
- [1 Samuel 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/15) — But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
- [1 Samuel 17:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/20) — And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to th…
- [1 Samuel 17:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/28) — And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou do…
- [1 Samuel 17:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/34) — And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
- [1 Samuel 24:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/24/3) — And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides…
- [1 Samuel 25:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/2) — And 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…
- [1 Samuel 25:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/4) — And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
- [1 Samuel 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/16) — They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- [1 Samuel 25:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/18) — Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched c…
- [1 Samuel 27:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/27/9) — And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and t…
- [1 Samuel 30:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/20) — And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.
- [2 Samuel 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/7/8) — Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the she…
- [2 Samuel 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/2) — The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
- [2 Samuel 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/4) — And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man th…
- [2 Samuel 17:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/29) — And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people i…
- [2 Samuel 24:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/17) — And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these…
- [1 Kings 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/9) — And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons,…
- [1 Kings 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/19) — And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab t…
- [1 Kings 1:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/25) — For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the capta…
- [1 Kings 4:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/4/23) — Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
- [1 Kings 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/5) — And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxe…
- [1 Kings 8:63](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/63) — And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty…
- [1 Kings 22:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/17) — And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let the…
- [2 Kings 5:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/5/26) — And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money…
- [1 Chronicles 4:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/4/39) — And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
- [1 Chronicles 4:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/4/41) — And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and…
- [1 Chronicles 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/5/21) — And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, an…
- [1 Chronicles 12:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/40) — Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on…
- [1 Chronicles 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/17/7) — Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following…
- [1 Chronicles 21:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/17) — And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as f…
- [1 Chronicles 27:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/27/31) — And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David’s.
- [2 Chronicles 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/5/6) — Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could n…
- [2 Chronicles 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/5) — And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the peo…
- [2 Chronicles 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/15) — They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
- [2 Chronicles 15:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/15/11) — And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
- [2 Chronicles 17:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/17/11) — Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seve…
- [2 Chronicles 18:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/2) — And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he ha…
- [2 Chronicles 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/16) — Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; l…
- [2 Chronicles 29:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/33) — And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
- [2 Chronicles 30:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/24) — For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregat…
- [2 Chronicles 31:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/31/6) — And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and t…
- [2 Chronicles 32:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/32/29) — Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
- [2 Chronicles 35:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/35/7) — And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of th…
- [Ezra 10:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/19) — And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
- [Nehemiah 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/1) — Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the do…
- [Nehemiah 3:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/32) — And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
- [Nehemiah 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/18) — Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of al…
- [Nehemiah 10:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/10/36) — Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring…
- [Nehemiah 12:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/39) — And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even…
- [Job 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/1/3) — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a ve…
- [Job 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/1/16) — While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the…
- [Job 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/11) — They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- [Job 30:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/1) — But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
- [Job 42:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/42/12) — So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thous…
- [Psalms 44:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/11) — Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
- [Psalms 44:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/22) — Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- [Psalms 49:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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; and their be…
- [Psalms 65:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/65/13) — The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
- [Psalms 74:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/1) — O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
- [Psalms 77:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/77/20) — Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- [Psalms 78:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/70) — He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
- [Psalms 79:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/79/13) — So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
- [Psalms 80:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/80/1) — Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
- [Psalms 95:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/95/7) — For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
- [Psalms 100:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/100/3) — Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- [Psalms 107:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/41) — Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
- [Psalms 114:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/114/4) — The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
- [Psalms 114:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/114/6) — Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
- [Psalms 144:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/13) — That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
- [Proverbs 27:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/23) — Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/7) — I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that wer…
- [Song of Solomon 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/1/8) — If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
- [Isaiah 7:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/21) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
- [Isaiah 13:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/14) — And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one in…
- [Isaiah 22:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/13) — And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall…
- [Isaiah 53:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/6) — All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- [Isaiah 60:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/7) — All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with accept…
- [Isaiah 61:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/61/5) — And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
- [Isaiah 63:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/11) — Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his…
- [Isaiah 65:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/10) — And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
- [Jeremiah 3:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/24) — For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
- [Jeremiah 5:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/17) — And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine her…
- [Jeremiah 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/3) — But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare…
- [Jeremiah 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/20) — Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
- [Jeremiah 23:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/1) — Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
- [Jeremiah 23:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/2) — Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and…
- [Jeremiah 23:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/3) — And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and th…
- [Jeremiah 25:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/34) — Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your disp…
- [Jeremiah 25:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/35) — And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
- [Jeremiah 25:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/36) — A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
- [Jeremiah 31:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/12) — Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and…
- [Jeremiah 33:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/12) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be…
- [Jeremiah 33:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/13) — In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places a…
- [Jeremiah 49:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/20) — Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of…
- [Jeremiah 49:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/29) — Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; a…
- [Jeremiah 50:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/6) — My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone…
- [Jeremiah 50:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/8) — Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
- [Jeremiah 50:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/45) — Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of…
- [Ezekiel 24:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/5) — Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
- [Ezekiel 25:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/25/5) — And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- [Ezekiel 34:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/2) — Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to th…
- [Ezekiel 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/3) — Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
- [Ezekiel 34:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/6) — My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none…
- [Ezekiel 34:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/8) — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there w…
- [Ezekiel 34:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/10) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feedin…
- [Ezekiel 34:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/11) — For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
- [Ezekiel 34:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/12) — As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver…
- [Ezekiel 34:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/15) — I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Ezekiel 34:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/17) — And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
- [Ezekiel 34:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/19) — And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
- [Ezekiel 34:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/22) — Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
- [Ezekiel 34:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/31) — And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Ezekiel 36:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/37) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a…
- [Ezekiel 36:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/38) — As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall k…
- [Ezekiel 43:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/23) — When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
- [Ezekiel 43:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/25) — Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, wit…
- [Ezekiel 45:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/15) — And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and fo…
- [Hosea 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/6) — They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
- [Joel 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/18) — How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
- [Amos 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/4) — That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst…
- [Amos 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/15) — And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
- [Jonah 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/7) — And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast…
- [Micah 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/12) — I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,…
- [Micah 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/8) — And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion…
- [Micah 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/14) — Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bas…
- [Habakkuk 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/17) — Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yiel…
- [Zephaniah 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/6) — And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
- [Zechariah 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/9/16) — And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an…
- [Zechariah 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/2) — For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went t…
- [Zechariah 11:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/4) — Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
- [Zechariah 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/7) — And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the othe…
- [Zechariah 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/11) — And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
- [Zechariah 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/17) — Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up,…
- [Zechariah 13:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/13/7) — Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shal…