Cattle
שׁוֹרStrong’s H7794shor
Appears in 69 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shor is the Hebrew word usually translated “ox”, “ox of” and “ox his”. It appears in 69 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.”
Meaning
- Ox, bull, a head of cattlefor plowing, for food, as sacrifice
How it's translated
- an ox 23
- the ox 12
- ox 8
- ox of 6
- ox his 6
- and an ox 5
- ox your 3
- from an ox 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 15
- Deuteronomy 12
- Leviticus 10
- Numbers 4
- 1 Samuel 4
- Isaiah 4
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 49:6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
- Exodus 20:17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Exodus 21:28If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
- Exodus 21:29But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
- Exodus 21:32If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
- Exodus 21:33And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
All 69 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוֹר shor · cattle
1) ox, bull, a head of cattle 1a) for plowing, for food, as sacrifice Aramaic equivalent: tor (תּוֹר "bullock" H8450)
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.