צֹאן
ṣōʾn
small cattle
Strong's H6629NounHebrewTWOT 1864a

צֹאן (ṣōʾn) is a Hebrew noun meaning small cattle. It appears 274 times in 30 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6629).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1864a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1864a)small cattle, sheep and goats, flock; cattle, lamb, sheep, sheepcote, sheepfold, sheepshearer
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

צֹאן noun, collective, feminine: small cattle, sheep and goats, flock, flocks

Strong's H6629 צֹאן: a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV:(small) cattle, flock (-s), lamb (-s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1864: צאן ṣʾn — Root of: צֹאן small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

See it in Scripture

Genesis 4:2Exodus 2:16Leviticus 1:2

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