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בָּקָר
bâqâr · Hebrew · Strong's H1241 · 183 occurrences
The KJV renders 23 different Hebrew and Greek words as “great”
What it means
beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
from H1239 (בָּקַר);
How the KJV renders it
beeve, great, herd, kine
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“great”
also renders hikanós (G2425), mégas (G3173), pleíōn (G4119), lían (G3029), ʼîysh (H376), ʼatstsîyl (H679), baʻal (H1167), gᵉlâl (H1560), chûwl (H2342), chalchâlâh (H2479), kâbad (H3513), kâbêd (H3515), lâbîyʼ (H3833), mᵉʼôd (H3966), marbeh (H4766), ʻâtsûwm (H6099), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâlâʼ (H6381), rab (H7229), rabrab (H7260), racham (H7356), saggîyʼ (H7689)
“kine”
also renders ʼeleph (H504)
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Where it appears
183 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 12:40 · HC/Ncbsa
Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.
1 Chronicles 13:9 · HTd/Ncbsa
When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.
1 Chronicles 21:23 · HTd/Ncbsa
Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
1 Chronicles 27:29 · HTd/Ncbsa
Over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite. Over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.
1 Kings 1:9 · HC/Ncbsa
Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;
1 Kings 4:23 · HNcbsa
ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
1 Kings 7:25 HNcbsa1 Kings 7:29 HC/Rd/Ncbsa1 Kings 7:44 HTd/Ncbsa1 Kings 8:5 HC/Ncbsa1 Kings 8:63 HNcbsa1 Kings 19:20 HTd/Ncbsa1 Kings 19:21 HTd/Ncbsa1 Samuel 11:5 HTd/Ncbsa1 Samuel 11:7 HNcbsa1 Samuel 14:32 HC/Ncbsa1 Samuel 15:9 HC/Td/Ncbsa1 Samuel 15:14 HTd/Ncbsa1 Samuel 15:15 HC/Td/Ncbsa1 Samuel 15:21 HC/Ncbsa1 Samuel 16:2 HNcbsa1 Samuel 27:9 HC/Ncbsa1 Samuel 30:20 HC/Td/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 4:3 HNcbpa2 Chronicles 4:4 HNcbsa2 Chronicles 4:15 HTd/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 5:6 HC/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 7:5 HTd/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 13:9 HNcbsa2 Chronicles 15:11 HNcbsa2 Chronicles 18:2 HC/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 29:22 HTd/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 29:32 HNcbsa2 Chronicles 29:33 HNcbsa2 Chronicles 31:6 HNcbsa2 Chronicles 32:29 HC/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 35:7 HC/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 35:8 HC/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 35:9 HC/Ncbsa2 Chronicles 35:12 HRd/Ncbsa2 Kings 5:26 HC/Ncbsa2 Kings 16:17 HTd/Ncbsa2 Samuel 6:6 HTd/Ncbsa2 Samuel 12:2 HC/Ncbsa2 Samuel 12:4 HC/R/Ncbsc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 17:29 HNcbsa2 Samuel 24:22 HTd/Ncbsa2 Samuel 24:24 HTd/NcbsaAmos 6:12 HRd/NcbpaDeuteronomy 8:13 HC/Ncbsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 12:6 HNcbsc/Sp2mpDeuteronomy 12:17 HNcbsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 12:21 HR/Ncbsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 14:23 HNcbsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 14:26 HRd/NcbsaDeuteronomy 15:19 HR/Ncbsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 16:2 HC/NcbsaDeuteronomy 21:3 HNcbsaDeuteronomy 32:14 HNcbsaEcclesiastes 2:7 HNcbsa
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.