Livestock
מִקְנֶהStrong’s H4735miqneh (miq-neh)
Appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Miqneh is the Hebrew word usually translated “livestock”, “livestock their” and “livestock of”. It appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.”
Meaning
- Cattle, livestockcows, sheep, goats (in herds and flocks)
How it's translated
- livestock 15
- livestock their 11
- livestock of 9
- livestock his 6
- livestock your 5
- and livestock 3
- and livestock of 3
- the livestock 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 21
- Exodus 11
- Numbers 6
- 1 Chronicles 4
- Joshua 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 13:2And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
- Genesis 13:7And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
- Genesis 26:14For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
- Genesis 29:7And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
- Genesis 30:29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
- Genesis 31:9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
All 64 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מִקְנֶה miqneh · livestock
1) cattle, livestock 1a) cattle, livestock 1a1) in general of a purchasable domestic animal 1b) cows, sheep, goats (in herds and flocks)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “livestock” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LI'VESTOCK, noun
[live and stock.]
Horses, cattle and smaller domestic animals; a term applied in America to such animals as may be exported alive for foreign market.
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.