צאן

From Proto-Semitic *ṣ́aʔn-. Cognate with Akkadian 𒇇𒇻𒄭𒀀 (ṣēnum) and Arabic ضَأْن (ḍaʔn). After the loss of the glottal stop [ʔ] the preceding vowel was compensatorily lenghtened and became [oː] as a result of the Canaanite shift.

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sˤoːn/, [sˤoːn]
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sˤon/, [sˤoːn]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /t͡son/

צֹאן • (tsón, ṣōʾn) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. (collective) sheep, flock of sheep
   • Tanach, Genesis 30:39, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיֶּחֱמוּ הַצֹּאן אֶל־הַמַּקְלוֹת וַתֵּלַדְןָ הַצֹּאן עֲקֻדִּים נְקֻדִּים וּטְלֻאִים׃

     vayekhemú hatsón 'el-hamak'lót vateládna hatsón 'akudím n'kudím ut'lu'ím.
     wayyeḥĕmū haṣṣōn ʾel-hammaqəlōṯ wattēláḏnā haṣṣōn ʿăquddīm nəquddīm ūṭəlūʾīm.

     And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

• שֶׂה (sé)
• כֶּבֶשׂ (kéves)

• H6629 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “צֹאן”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 539b
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1257a
• “צאן” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• צאן on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

צאן • (tson)

1. (nonstandard) Unpointed form of צאָן (tson).