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.
Read in context →22 occurrences in 18 verses.
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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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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.
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
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 of thy sheep.
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.
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, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
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, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
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 thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
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 his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
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.
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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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