אֶ֫לֶף
e.leph
“cattle”
Definition
a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow
from H502 (אָלַף);
- cattle, oxen 1a) in farming 1b) as a possession
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
אֶ֫לֶף appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The fruit of your womb will be blessed,as well as the produce of your landand the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herdsand the lambs of your flocks.
The fruit of your womb will be cursed,as well as the produce of your land,the calves of your herds,and the lambs of your flocks.
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
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