ba.qar H1241

בָּקָר (ba.qar) means “cattle” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

בָּקָר Hebrew · H1241 183 tagged occurrences in 172 verses

Pronunciation guide: baw-kawr' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1241

בָּקָר · ba.qar · cattle

1) cattle, herd, oxen, ox 1a) cattle (generic pl. but sing. in form-coll) 1b) herd (particular one) 1c) head of cattle (individually)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H1239 (בָּקַר); beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd

KJV glosses: beeve, bull ([phrase] -ock), [phrase] calf, [phrase] cow, great (cattle), [phrase] heifer, herd, kine, ox.

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How translators render H1241

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
oxen	28
and herds	17
and cattle	12
cattle	9
bulls	7
and oxen	6
from the herd	5
of oxen	5
the herd	5
herds	4
the oxen	4
bull	3
of your herds	3
like the ox	2
of cattle	2
the herds	2
the livestock	2
a heifer	1
and oil	1
and ox	1
and the oxen	1
and when your herds	1
animal from the herd	1
any of the herd	1
by your herds	1
for herds	1
from the cattle	1
herd	1
here are the oxen	1
his oxen	1
like an ox	1
of our herds	1
of their herds	1
or cattle	1
or herds	1
the bull	1
the bulls	1
to the oxen	1
use cow	1
using the oxens	1
while the oxen	1
with oxen	1
with the bulls	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
oxen	33
young	23
and oxen	12
a young	9
and herds	7
of oxen	7
of the herd	5
and their herds	4
and the oxen	3
bullocks	3
of the oxen	3
the oxen	3
an heifer	2
and of the oxen	2
and over the herds	2
and the herds	2
and your herds	2
beeves	2
of kine	2
of the beeves	2
of thy herd	2
of thy herds	2
a bullock	1
a calf	1
a place for the herds	1
all the oxen	1
and all the oxen	1
and of his own herd	1
and of the beeves	1
and of the herd	1
and on oxen	1
and the beeves	1
and the calf	1
and the herd	1
and their oxen	1
and thine herds	1
and thine oxen	1
and thy herds	1
and with our herds	1
and with their herds	1
as an ox	1
bulls	1
for oxen	1
for the oxen	1
herd	1
himself with a young	1
in beeves	1
like the bullock	1
like the ox	1
no herd	1
nor herds	1
of cattle	1
of great	1
of herds	1
of it for the oxen	1
of our herds	1
of the herds	1
of your herds	1
the bullock	1
the bullocks	1
the herd	1
thee a young	1
thee cows	1
thy herds	1
unto his oxen	1
unto the herd	1
upon the oxen	1
with a bullock	1
with a young	1
with an ox	1
with oxen	1
with the oxen	1

Verses containing H1241

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1 Samuel 15:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
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1 Samuel 15:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Samuel replied, “Then what is this bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle that I hear?”
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1 Samuel 15:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”
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1 Samuel 15:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”
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1 Samuel 16:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’
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1 Samuel 27:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,
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1 Samuel 30:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he took all the flocks and herds, which his men drove ahead of the other livestock, calling out, “This is David’s plunder!”
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2 Samuel 6:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.
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2 Samuel 12:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,
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2 Samuel 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
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2 Samuel 17:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
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2 Samuel 24:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
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2 Samuel 24:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
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1 Kings 1:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.
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1 Kings 4:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
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Source alternate reference: 5.3
1 Kings 7:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.
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1 Kings 7:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences
and on the panels between the uprights were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the uprights was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work.
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1 Kings 7:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;
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1 Kings 8:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
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1 Kings 8:63 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
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1 Kings 19:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
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1 Kings 19:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. Using the oxen’s equipment for fuel, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.
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2 Kings 5:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?
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2 Kings 16:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.
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1 Chronicles 12:40 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
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Source alternate reference: 12.41
1 Chronicles 13:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark, because the oxen had stumbled.
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1 Chronicles 21:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ornan said to David, “Take it! May my lord the king do whatever seems good to him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.”
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1 Chronicles 27:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Shitrai the Sharonite was in charge of the herds grazing in Sharon. Shaphat son of Adlai was in charge of the herds in the valleys.
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2 Chronicles 4:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
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2 Chronicles 4:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.
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2 Chronicles 4:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;
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2 Chronicles 5:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
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2 Chronicles 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
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2 Chronicles 13:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.
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2 Chronicles 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep from all the plunder they had brought back.
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2 Chronicles 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.
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2 Chronicles 29:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splattered it on the altar. They slaughtered the rams and splattered the blood on the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs and splattered the blood on the altar.
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2 Chronicles 29:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 29:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.
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2 Chronicles 31:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things consecrated to the LORD their God, and they laid them in large heaps.
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2 Chronicles 32:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He made cities for himself, and he acquired herds of sheep and cattle in abundance, for God gave him very great wealth.
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2 Chronicles 35:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.
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2 Chronicles 35:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officials of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.
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2 Chronicles 35:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Additionally, Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, as well as Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, officers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites 5,000 Passover offerings and 500 bulls.
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2 Chronicles 35:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They set aside the burnt offerings to be given to the divisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And they did the same with the bulls.
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Nehemiah 10:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
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Source alternate reference: 10.37
Job 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
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Job 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
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Job 40:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass like an ox.
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Job 42:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
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