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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; 7:3; 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 fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly 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]lowing 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 utterly destroyed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - “But the people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, H1241 the choicest of the things devoted to 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 of it, he will kill me.” And the LORD said, “Take a heifer 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 away 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 spoil.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:6 - But when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen H1241 nearly upset it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:2 - “The rich man had a great many flocks and herds. H1241

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4 - “Now a traveler came to the rich man,
And he [fn]was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd, H1241
To prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him;
Rather 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 for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:22 - Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, 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 surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God [fn]which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen H1241 for fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:9 - Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen H1241 and fatlings 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 a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:25 - It stood 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 Box1Ki 7:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:29 - and on the borders which were between the [fn]frames were lions, oxen H1241 and cherubim; and on the [fn]frames 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

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:44 - and the one sea and the twelve oxen H1241 under the sea;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 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

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:20 - He left the oxen H1241 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 again, for 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 boiled their flesh with the implements of the oxen, H1241 and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah and ministered to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen H1241 and male and female servants?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:17 - Then King Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands, and removed the laver from them; he also took down the 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

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40 - Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:9 - When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, because the oxen H1241 nearly upset it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:23

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:3 - Now figures like oxen H1241 were under it and all around it, 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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:4 - It stood on twelve oxen, H1241 three facing the 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 inwards.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:6 - And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who were 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 Box2Ch 7:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:5 - King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen H1241 and 120,000 sheep. Thus the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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 young bull and seven rams, even he may become a priest of what are no gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11 - They sacrificed to the LORD that day 700 oxen H1241 and 7,000 sheep from the spoil they had brought.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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 induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:22

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 also and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:32 - The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was 70 bulls, H1241 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:33 - The consecrated things were 600 bulls H1241 and 3,000 sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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, for God had given him very great [fn]wealth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, numbering 30,000 plus 3,000 bulls; H1241 these were from the king’s possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8 - His officers also contributed a freewill offering to the people, the priests and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the officials of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 from the flocks and 300 bulls. H1241

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the officers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 from the flocks and 500 bulls. H1241

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:12 - Then they removed the burnt offerings 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 also with the bulls. H1241

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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

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:3 - His possessions also were 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, H1241 500 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 [fn]donkeys feeding beside them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:15 - “Behold now, [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 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen H1241 and 1,000 female donkeys.

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