H1494 gazâz

“Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?””

“Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.”

“While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.”

“And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?””

“After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.”

“Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.”

“Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.”

“You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.”

“Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.”