Cattle
בְּעִירStrong’s H1165beir (be-ir)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beir is the Hebrew word usually translated “animal your”, “cattle his” and “livestock our”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;”
Meaning
- Beasts, cattle
How it's translated
- animal your 1
- cattle his 1
- and livestock our 1
- livestock their 1
- and livestock their 1
- cattle their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 3
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 22:5If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
- Numbers 20:4And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
- Numbers 20:8Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
- Numbers 20:11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
- Psalms 78:48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּעִיר beir · cattle
beasts, cattle
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.