KJV dictionary & concordance
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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First occurrence: Genesis 4:2
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
¶ But when he saw the multitudes, he was moued with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheepe hauing no shepheard.
1611 marginal noteOr, were tyred and lay downe.
1611 marginal noteMar. 6.34.
1611 marginal noteNum.27.17.
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
But goe rather to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel.
1611 marginal noteActs 13.46.
¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
¶ Behold, I send you foorth as sheepe in the middest of wolues: be yee therefore wise as serpents, and harmelesse as doues.
1611 marginal noteOr, simple.
1611 marginal noteLuk. 10.3.
And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
And hee said vnto them, What man shal there be among you, that shall haue one sheepe: and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will hee not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
How much then is a man better then a shepe? Wherfore it is lawfull to doe well on the Sabbath dayes.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
But he answered, and said, I am not sent, but vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel.
1611 marginal noteChap. 10.6.
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
How thinke yee? if a man haue an hundred sheepe, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leaue the ninetie and nine, and goeth into the mountaines, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
1611 marginal noteLuke 15.4.
And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
And if so be that he find it, Uerily I say vnto you, hee reioyceth more of that sheepe, then of the ninetie and nine which went not astray.
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepheard diuideth his sheepe from the goats.
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
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