HebrewH1241Noun

בָּקָר

ba.qar

167Occurrences
H1241Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

from H1239 (בָּקַר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  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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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

H:N

Full Description

Hebrew Noun

Occurrences

בָּקָר appears 167 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
49
2 Chronicles
17
Genesis
15
Leviticus
12
1 Samuel
10
Deuteronomy
10
1 Kings
8
Exodus
8

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 13:9BSB

When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark, because the oxen had stumbled.

2 Chronicles 4:3BSB

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.

Ezk 4:15BSB

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Job 1:3BSB

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.

Numbers 31:33BSB

72,000 cattle,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.