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Lexicon :: Strong's H1241 - bāqār

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בָּקָר
Transliteration
bāqār
Pronunciation
baw-kawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 274a

Strong’s Definitions

בָּקָר bâqâr, baw-kawr'; from H1239; a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd:—beeve, bull (+ -ock), + calf, + cow, great (cattle), + heifer, herd, kine, ox.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 182x

The KJV translates Strong's H1241 in the following manner: ox (78x), herd (44x), beeves (7x), young (18x), young (with H1121) (17x), bullock (6x), bullock (with H1121) (2x), calf (with H1121) (2x), heifer (2x), kine (2x), bulls (1x), cattle (1x), cow's (1x), great (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 182x
The KJV translates Strong's H1241 in the following manner: ox (78x), herd (44x), beeves (7x), young (18x), young (with H1121) (17x), bullock (6x), bullock (with H1121) (2x), calf (with H1121) (2x), heifer (2x), kine (2x), bulls (1x), cattle (1x), cow's (1x), great (1x).

  1. cattle, herd, oxen, ox

    1. cattle (generic pl. but sing. in form - coll)

    2. herd (particular one)

    3. head of cattle (individually)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּקָר bâqâr, baw-kawr'; from H1239; a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd:—beeve, bull (+ -ock), + calf, + cow, great (cattle), + heifer, herd, kine, ox.
STRONGS H1241: Abbreviations
בָּקָר 182 noun masculine1Ki 5:3 + (feminineGenesis 33:16; Job 1:14 compare Deuteronomy 32:14 2 Samuel 17:29) cattle, herd, ox (Arabic بَقَرٌ, Aramaic בַּקְרָא, בַּקְרְתָא, arqfb (compare also HomNS 222 ff.); name from ploughing, so Thes LagBN 51 and others) — absolute בּ׳ Genesis 12:16 +; construct בְּקַר Numbers 7:88; suffix בְּקָֽרְךָ Genesis 45:10 +; בְּקָרֶ֑ךָ Exodus 20:24; Jeremiah 5:17; בְּקָרוֺ 1 Samuel 11:7; 2 Samuel 12:4; בְּקַרְכֶם Deuteronomy 12:6; בְּקָרָם Jeremiah 3:24 +; plural בְּקָרִים Amos 6:12 (al. read בקר ים) 2 Chronicles 4:3 (but read מְּקָעִים see || 1 Kings 7:24 below); suffix בְּקָרֵינוּ Nehemiah 10:37; read בקריכם for בחוריכם 1 Samuel 8:16 Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; —
1. mostly collective.
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 בֶּן־בָּקָר 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; בֶּן־הַבּ׳ Leviticus 1:5; appositive עֵגֶל † Leviticus 9:2; — compare עֶגְלַת בָּקָר † Deuteronomy 21:3; 1 Samuel 16:2; Isaiah 7:21; — mostly appositive פַּר Exodus 29:1 + 27 times; also plural † בקר בני פָּרִים 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 פָּרִים); 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 particular 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 + 11 times Numbers 7; † compare also צֶמֶד ב׳ yoke (pair) of oxen 1 Samuel 11:7 compare 1 Samuel 11:7, 1 Kings 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, 2 Samuel 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 (תַּחַת הַשּׁוֺר); seven 2 Chronicles 29:22 (|| פָּרִים 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 פְּקָעִים, 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).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:14; 12:6; 12:16; 13:5; 18:7; 18:7; 18:8; 20:14; 21:27; 24:35; 33:16; 45:10; 47:17

Exodus

20:24; 29:1

Leviticus

1:2; 1:5; 9:2

Numbers

7; 7:3; 7:6; 7:7; 7:8; 7:17; 7:87; 7:88; 7:88; 15:8; 15:9; 22:40; 28:11; 28:19; 28:27; 29:13; 29:17; 31:33; 31:38; 31:44

Deuteronomy

8:13; 12:6; 21:3; 32:14; 32:14

Judges

3:31

1 Samuel

6:7; 8:16; 11:5; 11:7; 11:7; 11:7; 14:32; 14:32; 15:14; 15:21; 16:2

2 Samuel

6:6; 12:4; 17:29; 17:29; 24:22; 24:22; 24:22; 24:24

1 Kings

1:9; 5:3; 5:3; 5:3; 7:4; 7:24; 7:24; 7:25; 7:29; 7:44; 8:5; 8:63; 19:19; 19:20; 19:21; 19:21; 19:21

2 Kings

16:17

1 Chronicles

12:40; 12:40; 13:9; 27:29; 27:29

2 Chronicles

4:3; 4:3; 4:3; 4:3; 4:4; 4:15; 5:6; 7:5; 15:11; 18:2; 29:21; 29:22; 29:32; 29:33; 35:7; 35:8; 35:9; 35:12

Nehemiah

10:37; 10:37

Job

1:3; 1:14; 1:14; 40:15; 42:12

Psalms

66:15

Isaiah

7:21; 11:7; 22:13; 65:25

Jeremiah

3:24; 5:17; 52:20

Ezekiel

4:15

Hosea

5:6

Joel

1:18; 1:18

Amos

6:12; 6:12; 6:12

H1241

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Strong's Number H1241 matches the Hebrew בָּקָר (bāqār),
which occurs 183 times in 172 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (1Sa 15:9–Job 42:12)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen H1241, the more valuable animals, the lambs, and everything that was good, and were unwilling to destroy them completely; but everything despicable and weak, that they completely destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - But Samuel said, “What then is this [fn]bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the [fn]bellowing of the oxen H1241 which I hear?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen H1241 to sacrifice to the LORD your God; but the rest we have completely destroyed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - “But the people took some of the spoils, sheep and oxen H1241, the choicest of the things designated for destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - But Samuel said, “How can I go? When Saul hears about it, he will kill me.” But the LORD said, “Take a heifer H1241 [fn]with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9 - David [fn]attacked the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive, and he took the sheep, the cattle H1241, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:20 - So David had [fn]captured all the sheep and the cattle H1241 which the people drove ahead of [fn]the other livestock, and they said, “This is David’s plunder.”

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But when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and took hold of it, because the oxen H1241 nearly overturned it.

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“The wealthy man had a great many flocks and herds H1241.

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“Now a visitor came to the wealthy man,

And he could not bring himself to take any animal from his own flock or his own herd H1241,

To prepare for the traveler who had come to him;

So he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:29 - honey, curds, sheep, and cheese of the herd H1241, for David and the people who were with him, to eat. For they said, “The people are hungry and exhausted and thirsty in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:22 - Araunah then said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, here are the oxen H1241 for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen H1241 for the wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:24 - However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will certainly buy it from you for a price; for I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God [fn]that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen H1241 for fifty shekels of silver.

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Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen H1241, and fattened steers by the [fn]stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fat oxen H1241, twenty [fn]pasture-fed oxen H1241, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened geese.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - It was standing on twelve oxen H1241, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the Sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:29 - and on the borders which were between the crossbars were lions, oxen H1241, and cherubim; and on the crossbars there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen H1241 were wreaths of hanging work.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:44 - and the one [fn]Sea and the twelve oxen H1241 under the Sea;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:5 - And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were gathered together to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing [fn]so many sheep and oxen H1241 that they could not be counted or numbered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:63

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, twenty-two thousand oxen H1241 and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:20 - Then he left the oxen H1241 behind and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back, for [fn]what have I done to you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:21 - So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen H1241 and sacrificed them, and cooked their meat with the implements of the oxen H1241, and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and served him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 -

Then he said to him, “Did my heart not go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to accept money and to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, oxen H1241, and male and female slaves?

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Then King Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands, and removed the wash basin from them; he also took down the [fn]Sea from the bronze oxen H1241 which were under it and put it on a pavement of stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40 - Moreover, those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and on oxen H1241, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen H1241, and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel.

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When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, because the oxen H1241 nearly overturned it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:23 - But Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and may my lord the king do what is good in his sight. See, I am giving the oxen H1241 for burnt offerings, and the threshing sledges for wood and the wheat for the grain offering; I am giving it all.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:29 - Shitrai the Sharonite was responsible for the cattle H1241 which were grazing in Sharon; and Shaphat the son of Adlai was responsible for the cattle H1241 in the valleys.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:3 - Now figures like oxen H1241 were under it and all around it, [fn]ten cubits, entirely encircling the Sea. The oxen H1241 were in two rows, cast [fn]in one piece.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:4 - It was standing on twelve oxen H1241, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the Sea was set on top of them and all their hindquarters turned inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:15 - and the one Sea with the twelve oxen H1241 under it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:6 - And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who had assembled with him before the ark were sacrificing [fn]so many sheep and oxen H1241 that they could not be counted or numbered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:5 - King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen H1241 and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:9 - “Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a bull H1241 and seven rams, even he may become a priest of things that are not gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11 - They sacrificed to the LORD on that day seven hundred oxen H1241 and seven thousand sheep from the spoils they had brought.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:2 - Some years later he went down to visit Ahab at Samaria, and Ahab slaughtered many sheep and oxen H1241 for him and the people who were with him. And he incited him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:22 - So they slaughtered the bulls H1241, and the priests took the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They also slaughtered the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar; they slaughtered the lambs as well, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:32 - The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls H1241, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all of these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:33 - The consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls H1241 and three thousand sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:6 - The sons of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of oxen H1241 and sheep, and the tithe of [fn]sacred gifts which were consecrated to the LORD their God, and placed them in heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:29 - He made cities for himself and acquired flocks and herds H1241 in abundance, because God had given him very great [fn]wealth.

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Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, numbering thirty thousand, plus three thousand bulls H1241; these were from the king’s property.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8 - His officers also contributed a [fn]voluntary offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the officials of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 from the flocks and three hundred bulls H1241, for the Passover offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - Conaniah also, and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the officers of the Levites, contributed five thousand from the flocks and five hundred bulls H1241 to the Levites for the Passover offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:12 - Then they removed the burnt offerings so that they might give them to the sections of the fathers’ households of the lay people to present to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. They did this with the bulls H1241 as well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:36 - and bring to the house of our God the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, and the firstborn of our herds H1241 and our flocks as it is written in the Law, for the priests who are ministering in the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:3 - His possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen H1241, five hundred female donkeys, and very many servants; and that man was the greatest of all the [fn]men of the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:14 - a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen H1241 were plowing and the female donkeys feeding beside them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:15 -

“Behold, [fn]Behemoth, which I made [fn]as well as you;

He eats grass like an ox H1241.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12 - The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen H1241, and a thousand female donkeys.

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