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sheep

Meaning of “sheep”

Sense 1: Flock animals kept for wool, food, and sacrifice. Sense 2: Figuratively, people pictured as a flock or as needing a shepherd.

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187 occurrences178 verses33 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 4:2

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Job 1:3
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 1:3 · retained source text

His substance also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, and fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great houshold; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.

1611 marginal noteOr, cattell.

1611 marginal noteOr, husbandrie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. sonnes of the East.

Job 1:16
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 1:16 · retained source text

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heauen, and hath burnt vp the sheepe, and the seruants, and consumed them, and I onely am escaped alone, to tell thee.

1611 marginal noteOr, a great fire.

Job 31:20
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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1611 witness · Job 31:20 · retained source text

If his loynes haue not blessed me, and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:

Job 42:12
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.
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1611 witness · Job 42:12 · retained source text

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Iob, more then his beginning: for he had fourteene thousand sheepe, and sixe thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand shee asses.

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