Cattle
בָּקָרStrong’s H1241baqar (ba-qar)
Appears in 172 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baqar is the Hebrew word usually translated “cattle”, “ox” and “herd”. It appears in 172 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.”
Meaning
- Cattle, herd, oxen, oxcattle (generic pl. but sing. in form-coll) · herd (particular one) · head of cattle (individually)
How it's translated
- cattle 48
- ox 19
- and cattle 18
- herd 15
- the ox 15
- the cattle 11
- the herd 9
- and the cattle 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 49
- 2 Chronicles 17
- Genesis 16
- Leviticus 12
- Deuteronomy 10
- 1 Samuel 10
24 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 13:5And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
- Genesis 18:7And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
- Genesis 18:8And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
- Genesis 20:14And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
- Genesis 21:27And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
- Genesis 24:35And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
All 172 verses, by book
- Numbers 49
- 7:37:67:77:87:157:177:217:237:277:297:337:357:397:417:457:477:517:537:577:597:637:657:697:717:757:777:817:837:877:888:811:2215:315:815:915:2422:4028:1128:1928:2729:229:829:1329:1731:2831:3031:3331:3831:44
- Judges 1
- 3:31
- Nehemiah 1
- 10:36
- Psalms 1
- 66:15
- Ecclesiastes 1
- 2:7
- Hosea 1
- 5:6
- Joel 1
- 1:18
- Amos 1
- 6:12
- Jonah 1
- 3:7
- Habakkuk 1
- 3:17
Hebrew dictionary
בָּקָר baqar · cattle
1) cattle, herd, oxen, ox 1a) cattle (generic pl. but sing. in form-coll) 1b) herd (particular one) 1c) head of cattle (individually)
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.