Sheep
צֹנֶהStrong’s H6792tsoneh (tso-neh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsoneh is the Hebrew word usually translated “sheep your” and “sheep”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.”
Meaning
- Flock, sheep
How it's translated
- for sheep your 1
- sheep 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
צֹנֶה tsoneh · sheep
flock, sheep
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sheep” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHEEP, noun
sing. and plu.
- 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.
- In contempt, a silly fellow.
- 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). 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.