SHEEP
(a) Male of the sheep (Ez. 34:17).
His flesh was used as food (Gen. 31:38).
The animal could be offered as a burnt offering or in thanksgiving (Gen. 22:13; Lev. 1:10; 8:18; 3:6; 9:4).
The sacrifice of reparation for a mistake had to be a ram (Lev. 5:15; 6:6).
The skins of the rams, dyed red, served, among other things, as coverings for the Tabernacle (Ex. 26:14).
(b) In Joshua’s time, the war trumpets and trumpets of the Jubilee were made of rams’ horns (Josh. 6:4-6, 8, 13).
(c) The 2-horned ram in Daniel’s prophetic vision represented the might of the Medo-Persian empire.
The first horn, the smallest, symbolizes the Median empire; The second, larger one, which emerged later, was the Persian power (Dn. 8:3-7, 20).
(d) The name ram was also given to the battering ram.