Flock
צֹאןStrong’s H6629tson
Appears in 247 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tson is the Hebrew word usually translated “flock”, “sheep” and “flock my”. It appears in 247 verses of the Old Testament.
“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 ensign upon his land.”
Meaning
- Small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flockssmall cattle (usually of sheep and goats) · of multitude (simile) · of multitude (metaphor)
- This name means sheep and goats
How it's translated
- the flock 53
- sheep 42
- the sheep 27
- flock my 17
- flock 14
- flock of 13
- and sheep 12
- flock your 11
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 52
- 1 Samuel 19
- Ezekiel 19
- Jeremiah 18
- Deuteronomy 16
- Psalms 16
30 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 10:2In contextFor the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
- Zechariah 11:4In contextThus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
- Zechariah 11:7In contextAnd 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 other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
- Zechariah 11:11In contextAnd 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 11:17In contextWoe 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, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
- Zechariah 13:7In contextAwake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
All 247 verses, by book
- Genesis 52
- 4:24:412:1613:520:1421:2721:2824:3526:1427:929:229:329:629:729:829:929:1030:3130:3230:3630:3830:3930:4030:4130:4230:4331:431:831:1031:1231:1931:3831:4131:4332:532:733:1334:2837:237:1237:1438:1238:1338:1745:1046:3246:3447:147:347:447:1750:8
- Joshua 1
- 7:24
- 1 Samuel 19
- 8:1714:3215:915:1415:1515:2116:1116:1917:1517:2017:2817:3424:325:225:425:1625:1827:930:20
- 2 Kings 1
- 5:26
- Ezra 1
- 10:19
- Proverbs 1
- 27:23
- Ecclesiastes 1
- 2:7
- Song of Solomon 1
- 1:8
- Hosea 1
- 5:6
- Joel 1
- 1:18
- Jonah 1
- 3:7
- Habakkuk 1
- 3:17
- Zephaniah 1
- 2:6
Hebrew dictionary
צֹאן tson · flock
1) small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks 1a) small cattle (usually of sheep and goats) 1b) of multitude (simile) 1c) of multitude (metaphor)
צֹאן tson · Sheep (Gate)
This name means sheep and goats Also named: probatikos (προβατικός "Sheep Gate" G4262)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flock” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLOCK, noun
[Latin floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.]
- A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals.
- A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.
- A body or crowd of people. [little used.
- A lock of wool or hair.
All definitions and other forms of “flock”
FLOCK, verb intransitive
To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.