πρόβατον, -ου, τό (προβαίνω), [in LXX chiefly for צֹאן, also for שֶׂה, more rarely for כֶּבֶשׂ (כֶּשֶׂב), רָחֵל ;] 1. in Hom., Hdt., cattle, esp. of small cattle, sheep and goats. 2. In NT, as in Attic writers generally (cf. MM, xxi), a sheep: Mat.7:15, Mrk.6:34, al.; πρόβατα σφαγῆς, Rom.8:36 (LXX). Metaphorical (in cl. of timidity, stupidity or idleness), of the followers of a leader or master, esp. of those who are subject to the care of the Good Shepherd: Mat.10:6 15:24 26:31" (LXX) Mrk.14:27 (LXX), Jhn.10:7-8, 15-16 10:26-27 21:16-17 (WH txt., προβάτια), Heb.13:20; opposite to ἐρίφια, Mat.25:33. προβάτιον, -ου, τό, dimin. of πρόβατον (used as a term of endearment, see El., § 27, 4), a little sheep: Jhn.21:16-17 (πρόβατα, WH, mg.).† (AS)
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G4263 — πρόβατον
probaton · sheep · Greek
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Matthew 7:15 · προβάτων,‘But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep’s clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.Matthew 9:36 · πρόβαταAnd having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,Matthew 10:6 · πρόβαταand be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.Matthew 10:16 · πρόβατα‘Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.Matthew 12:11 · πρόβατονAnd he said to them, ‘What man shall be of you, who shall have one sheep, and if this may fall on the sabbaths into a ditch, will not lay hold on it and raise it?Matthew 12:12 · προβάτου;How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep?—so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.’Matthew 15:24 · πρόβαταand he answering said, ‘I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’Matthew 18:12 · πρόβατα‘What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not—having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains—seek that which is gone astray?Matthew 25:32 · πρόβαταand gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats,Matthew 25:33 · πρόβαταand he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left.Matthew 26:31 · πρόβαταthen saith Jesus to them, ‘All ye shall be stumbled at me this night; for it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad;Mark 6:34 · πρόβαταand having come forth, Jesus saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion on them, that they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach many things.Mark 14:27 · πρόβαταand Jesus saith to them—‘All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,Luke 15:4 · πρόβατα‘What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?Luke 15:6 · πρόβατόνand having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep—the lost one.John 2:14 · πρόβαταand he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,John 2:15 · πρόβαταand having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,John 10:1 · προβάτων‘Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;John 10:2 · προβάτων.and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;John 10:3 · πρόβατα · πρόβαταto this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;John 10:4 · πρόβαταand when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;John 10:7 · προβάτων.Jesus said therefore again to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you—I am the door of the sheep;John 10:8 · πρόβατα.all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;John 10:11 · προβάτων.‘I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;John 10:12 · πρόβατα · πρόβαταand the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;John 10:13 · προβάτων.¶and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.John 10:15 · προβάτων.according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,John 10:16 · πρόβαταand other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock—one shepherd.John 10:26 · προβάτωνbut ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,John 10:27 · πρόβαταaccording as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,John 21:16 · πρόβατάHe saith to him again, a second time, ‘Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me?’ he saith to him, ‘Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;’ he saith to him, ‘Tend my sheep.’John 21:17 · πρόβατάHe saith to him the third time, ‘Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?’ Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, ‘Dost thou dearly love me?’ and he said to him, ‘Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.’ Jesus saith to him, ‘Feed my sheep;Acts 8:32 · πρόβατονAnd the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: ‘As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;Romans 8:36 · πρόβατα(according as it hath been written—‘For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,’)Hebrews 13:20 · προβάτωνAnd the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep—in the blood of an age-during covenant—our Lord Jesus,1 Peter 2:25 · πρόβαταfor ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.Revelation 18:13 · πρόβαταand cinnamon, and odours, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies and souls of men.