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# sheep

noun (sheep, sheep)

«sheep» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A sheep is a farm animal with a thick woolly coat. A sheep has 4 legs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#m1)
2. Farmers keep sheep for wool, meat and milk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#m2)
3. A person who just copies others is sometimes called a sheep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#m3)

### In the lessons

Maths: animals counted on a farm; their legs (4 each) or wool. Science and farming: a baby sheep is a lamb, a male is a ram, a female is a ewe; shearing the wool. Everyday: counting sheep to fall asleep; New Zealand and Australia have very many sheep. Stories: the boy who cried wolf, Little Bo-Peep.

### Examples

- A farmer has 45 sheep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x1)
- Each sheep gives 3 kg of wool. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x2)
- 12 sheep are in the barn and the rest are in the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x3)
- How many legs do 6 sheep have? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x4)
- The sheepdog rounded up the sheep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x5)
- The farmer shears the sheep in spring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x6)
- When I can't sleep, I count sheep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x7)
- A lamb is a baby sheep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x8)
- "Whose sheep are these?" he asks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/#x9)

### Note

Plural is the same: one sheep, ten sheep (not «sheeps»). Animals counted; 4 legs each, so legs = sheep × 4. Trap: «sheep» is the same for one and many — look at the verb (is/are) or the number. Meat from sheep is lamb or mutton.

## In Jewish tradition

Sheep were the main flock animals of the Israelites and the patriarchs, and also used for offerings such as the lamb. Shepherding became a sign of the patriarchs, Moses and later David. In the primary lessons: Maths: animals counted on a farm; their legs (4 each) or wool. Science and farming: a baby sheep is a lamb, a male is a ram, a female is a ewe; shearing the wool. Everyday: counting sheep to fall asleep; New Zealand and Australia have very many sheep. Stories: the boy who cried wolf, Little Bo-Peep.

### Examples

- Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. (Torah GEN.31.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheep/#x1)
- Issachar is a large-boned ass, couching down between the sheep-folds. (Torah GEN.49.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheep/#x2)
- and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran; fortified cities, and folds for sheep. (Torah NUM.32.36, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheep/#x3)
- The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep. (Writings PSA.114.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheep/#x4)
- And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. (Prophets 1SA.25.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheep/#x5)
- And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. (Writings 2CH.29.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheep/#x6)

### Note

Plural is the same: one sheep, ten sheep (not «sheeps»). Animals counted; 4 legs each, so legs = sheep × 4. Trap: «sheep» is the same for one and many — look at the verb (is/are) or the number. Meat from sheep is lamb or mutton.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sheep» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sheep/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sheep» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sheep.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «sheep» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sheep/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sheep» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/sheep.html) on Mova free.