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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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 had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.
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; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
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 the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
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 doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
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 all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
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 unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
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 servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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 thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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 beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
<<Maschil of Asaph.>> O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
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,
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.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
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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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