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.
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And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Read in context →And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
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tsôʼn · tsone
a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
Strong's KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock ( -s), lamb ( -s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).
Strong's first: Genesis 4:2Strong's last: Zechariah 13:7
Open full H6629 profile →próbaton · prob'-at-on
something that walks forward (a quadruped), i.e. (specially), a sheep (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sheep(-fold).
Strong's first: Matthew 9:36Strong's last: Revelation 18:13
Open full G4263 profile →seh · seh
a member of a flock, i.e. a sheep or goat
Strong's KJV usage: (lesser, small) cattle, ewe, goat, lamb, sheep. Compare 2089.
Strong's first: Exodus 22:1Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:17
Open full H7716 profile →keseb · keh'-seb
a young sheep
Strong's KJV usage: lamb.
Strong's first: Genesis 30:32Strong's last: Numbers 18:17
Open full H3775 profile →kebes · keh-bes'
a ram (just old enough to butt)
Strong's KJV usage: lamb, sheep.
Strong's first: Exodus 12:5Strong's last: Job 31:20
Open full H3532 profile →tsônêʼ · tso-nay'
a flock
Strong's KJV usage: sheep.
Strong's first: Numbers 32:24Strong's last: Psalms 8:7
Open full H6792 profile →râchêl · raw-kale'
a ewe [the females being the predominant element of a flock] (as a good traveller)
Strong's KJV usage: ewe, sheep.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 6:6Strong's last: Isaiah 53:7
Open full H7353 profile →probatikós · prob-at-ik-os'
relating to sheep, i.e. (a gate) through which they were led into Jerusalem
Strong's KJV usage: :--sheep (market).
Strong's first: John 5:2Strong's last: John 5:2
Open full G4262 profile →min · min
properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses
Strong's KJV usage: above, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, × neither, × nor, (out) of, over, since, × then, through, × whether, with.
Strong's first: Numbers 31:43Strong's last: Numbers 31:43
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He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
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 blood.
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
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, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
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 the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
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 LORD thy God in Gilgal.
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
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 the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
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 down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
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:
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
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 goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
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 goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
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 the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
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SHEEP, noun sing. and plu.
1. An animal of the genus Ovis, which is one of the most useful species that the Creator has bestowed upon man, and its wool constitutes a principal material of warm clothing, and its flesh is a great article of fool. The sheep is remarkable for its harmless temper ant its tmidity. the varieties are numerous.
2. In contempt, a silly fellow.
3. Figuratively, God's people are called sheep, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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