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Bullock

פַּרStrong’s H6499

par

Appears in 119 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Par is the Hebrew word usually translated “young bull”, “young bulls” and “bull”. It appears in 119 verses of the Old Testament.

“Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.”
Genesis 32:15 KJV
Meaning
  1. Young bull, steer, bullock
How it's translated
  • a young bull 29
  • young bulls 24
  • the bull 16
  • the young bull 15
  • for the young bull 10
  • bull of 8
  • for the young bulls 6
  • bulls 6

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 50
  • Leviticus 23
  • Ezekiel 13
  • Exodus 8
  • 1 Kings 4
  • Psalms 4

16 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 119 verses, by book
Genesis 1
32:15
Judges 3
6:256:266:28
1 Samuel 2
1:241:25
1 Chronicles 2
15:2629:21
2 Chronicles 3
13:929:2130:24
Ezra 1
8:35
Job 1
42:8
Isaiah 2
1:1134:7
Jeremiah 1
50:27
Hosea 1
14:2
Hebrew dictionary

פַּר par · bullock

young bull, steer, bullock

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “bullock” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BULL'OCK, noun

An ox, or castrated bull. In America, it is applied to a full grown ox.

    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.