Lamb
זֶהStrong’s H7716zeh
Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “sheep”, “lamb” and “sheep his”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Meaning
- Lamb, sheep (may be a typographical error for 'seh')
How it's translated
- a sheep 14
- and a sheep 7
- sheep 5
- the sheep 3
- a lamb 3
- with a sheep 2
- sheep his 2
- and sheep 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 10
- Leviticus 5
- Deuteronomy 4
- 1 Samuel 4
- Isaiah 4
- Ezekiel 4
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 22:8And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
- Genesis 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
- Exodus 12:3Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
- Exodus 12:4And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
- Exodus 12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
- Exodus 13:13And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
All 39 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
זֶה zeh · lamb
lamb, sheep (may be a typographical error for 'seh') Another spelling of seh (שֶׂה "sheep" H7716)
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.