Cattle
אֶ֫לֶףStrong’s H0504eleph (e-leph)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eleph is the Hebrew word usually translated “cattle your” and “cattle”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.”
Meaning
- Cattle, oxenin farming · as a possession
How it's translated
- cattle your 4
- and cattle 1
- cattle 1
- and the cattle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 4
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
- Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
- Deuteronomy 28:51And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
- Psalms 8:7All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
- Proverbs 14:4Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
- Isaiah 30:24The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Hebrew dictionary
אֶ֫לֶף eleph · cattle
1) cattle, oxen 1a) in farming 1b) as a possession
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cattle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CATTLE, noun
- Beasts or quadrupeds in general, serving for tillage, or other labor, and for food to man.
- In the United States, cattle in common usage, signifies only beasts of the bovine genus, oxen, bulls, cows and their young.
- In reproach, human beings are called cattle
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.