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Strong's #1241 - בָּקָר
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- cattle, herd, oxen, ox
- cattle (generic plural but singular in form-coll)
- herd (particular one)
- head of cattle (individually)
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2035) rqb (בקר BQR) AC: Plow CO: Cattle AB: ?: The breaking open of the ground with a plow pulled by oxen. [from: rp- as a breaking] (eng: buckaroo - from the Spanish vaquero)
Nm ) rqb (בקר BQR) - Cattle: Strong beasts used to break the soil with plows. KJV (182): ox, herd, beeves, young, bullock - Strongs: H1241 (בָּקָר)
gm) rqfb (בוקר BWQR) - I. Herdsman:One who works with cattle. II. Morning:The breaking of daylight. KJV (205): herdsman, morning, morrow, day, early - Strongs: H951 (בּוֹקֵר), H1242 (בֹּקֶר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 mostly coll.
a. cattle, Generic (never plural in form) Genesis 12:6; Genesis 13:5; Genesis 20:14; Genesis 21:27; Genesis 24:35; Leviticus 1:2; Deuteronomy 8:13; 1 Samuel 11:5; Hosea 5:6; Joel 1:18; 1 Chronicles 27:29 (twice in verse) + often (frequently "" צאֹן); as grazing, 1 Chronicles 27:29 +; in simile ׳כַּבּ Job 40:15; Isaiah 11:7; Isaiah 65:25; as lowing (׳קוֺל הַבּ) 1 Samuel 15:14; מִקְנֵה בָקָר possession of (i.e. property in) cattle Genesis 6:14; Genesis 47:17 (both J); ׳עֶדְרֵי ב Joel 1:18 herds of cattle; especially בֶּןבָּֿקָר son of cattle (i.e. belonging to the בקר), to denote a single ox, calf, etc.; as used for food Genesis 18:7 compare Genesis 18:8 (J); — in these probably = calf (see also 1 Samuel 14:32 בָּקָר וּבְנֵי בָקָר); usually for sacrifice (Hexateuch only P) Numbers 15:8,9; ׳בֶּןהַֿבּ Leviticus 1:5; appositive עֵגֶל Leviticus 9:2; — compare עֶגְלַת בָּקָר Deuteronomy 21:3; 1 Samuel 16:2; Isaiah 7:21; — mostly appositive מַּר Exodus 29:1 27t.; also plural מָּרִים בני בקר Numbers 28:11,19,27; Numbers 29:13,17 (on all these compare בֵּן); also indefinite cattle, oxen, of a number not specified Numbers 7:87,88 (in both enumerated as מָּרִים); Numbers 22:40; 1 Samuel 14:32; 1 Samuel 15:21; 1 Kings 1:9; 1 Kings 7:29 (twice in verse) (here of graven work) 1 Kings 8:5; 1 Chronicles 12:40; 2 Chronicles 5:6; 18:2; Isaiah 22:13; Psalm 66:15; also as beasts of burden 1 Chronicles 12:40.
b. a particulur herd of cattle Genesis 18:7 (J); compare plural בְּקָרֵינוּ, our herds, only Nehemiah 10:37.
2 more individually, head of cattle, — yet always of more than one (Hexateuch mostly P; plural only Amos 6:12 2 Chronicles 4:3 see above); of two Numbers 7:17 11t. Numbers 7; compare also ׳צֶמֶד ב yoke (pair) of oxen 1 Samuel 11:7 compare 1 Samuel 11:7,1Kings 19:21 compare 1 Kings 19:21 (ploughing, compare 1 Kings 19:19); also 2 Samuel 6:6 = 1 Chronicles 13:9 (drawing a cart, compare Numbers 7:3f.; 1 Samuel 6:7f.), 2 Samuel 24:22 = 1 Chronicles 21:33,2Samuel 24:22,24; 1 Kings 19:20; Amos 6:12 (plural); 500 yoke of oxen Job 1:3 compare Job 1:14; 1000 yoke Job 42:12; further, of four Numbers 7:7; five Exodus 21:37 (תַּחַתהַשּׁוֺר); seven 2 Chronicles 29:22 ("" מָּרִים 2 Chronicles 29:21); eight Numbers 7:8; ten 1 Kings 5:3; twelve Numbers 7:3 (singly called שׁוֺר) compare Numbers 7:6; of the twelve brazen bulls beneath the sea in Solomon's temple 1 Kings 7:25,44 2 Chronicles 4:4,15 compare 2 Kings 16:17; 2 Chronicles 4:3 (דְּמוּת בְּקָרִים) 2 Chronicles 4:3 (but read in both מְּקָעִים, as "" 1 Kings 7:24 compare Be Öttli) 1 Kings 7:4; Jeremiah 52:20; of twenty 1 Kings 5:3; seventy 2 Chronicles 29:32; hundreds or thousands 1 Kings 8:63 2 Chronicles 7:5; 15:11; 29:33; 35:7,8,9 (compare 2 Chronicles 35:12), & Numbers 31:33,38,44 . Note חֶמְאַת בָּקָר Deuteronomy 32:14 (poem), ׳שְׁפוֺת ב 2 Samuel 17:29, ׳כְּלִי הַבּ 2 Samuel 24:22; 1 Kings 19:21, מַלְמַד׳הַבּ Judges 3:31, ׳צְפִו֯עֵי הַבּ Ezekiel 4:15 (opposed to גֶּלֲלֵי הָאָדָם).
בָּקָר comm. (m. Ex. 21:37 f. Job 1:14).
(1) bos, whether masc. or fem., bull or cow, so called from its ploughing (see the root No. 1), like armentum, according to Varro, De L.L. iv. 19, qs. aramentum, and Arab. بَقَرُ, according to Damiri, so called because it breaks up the ground with the plough (see Bochart, Hieroz. i. 280), [“or according to Ewald from the cloven hoofs”]. In pl. Amos 6:12; Nehemiah 10:37; 2 Chronicles 4:3. In all its other occurrences it denotes
(2) collect. oxen, cattle, herd (Arab. بَقَرُ id., with the noun of unity بَقَرَةُ one ox, Syr. ܒܰܘܪܐܳ herd, prop. used of oxen, but also used in a wider signification of other herds; compare בּוֹקֵר). צאֹן וּבָקָר herds and flocks (of sheep and goats), Genesis 12:16, 13:5 20:14. Deuteronomy 32:14, חֶמְאַת בָּקָר “milk of kine.” It is joined
(a) with numerals, and is opposed to שׁוֹר signifying one ox (compare שֶׂה and צאֹן). Ex. 21:37, “if any one steals one ox חֲמִשָּׁה בָקָר יְשַׁלֵּם … (שׁוֹר) תַּחַת הַשּׁוֹר he shall restore him five oxen for this one;” Numbers 7:3, שְׁנֵי עָשָׂר בָּקָר; verse 17, בָּקָר שְׁנַיִם
(b) with pl. verbs and adjectives, 2 Samuel 6:6, כִּי שָֽׁמְטוּ הַבָּקָר “for the oxen were restive;” 1 Kings 5:3, and these may be feminine if cows are intended; Job 1:14; Genesis 33:13 עֵגֶל בֶּן־בָּקָר a bull-calf, Leviticus 9:2 עֶגְלַת בָּקָר Isaiah 7:21, and simply בֶּן־בָּקָר Genesis 18:7, Genesis 18:8, of a calf; used of artificial oxen, 1 Kings 7:29. Hence the denom. בּוֹקֵר.