Original Language Studio
Numbers 31:44
“And thirty and six thousand beeves,” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
בָּקָרbâqâr · baw-kawr'
H1241 · Hebrew
H1241 · Hebrew
- Definition
- beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
- Derivation
- from H1239 (בָּקַר);
- KJV renderings
- beeve, bull ([phrase] -ock), [phrase] calf, [phrase] cow, great (cattle), [phrase] heifer, herd, kine, ox.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- בָקָ֕ר — common noun, both genders, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 183 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 12:16Genesis 13:5Genesis 18:7Genesis 18:7Genesis 18:8
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בָּקָר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.