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אֶלֶף
ʼeleph · Hebrew · Strong's H504 · 8 occurrences
The KJV renders 3 different Hebrew and Greek words as “family”
What it means
a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow
from H502 (אָלַף);
How the KJV renders it
family, kine, oxen
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“family”
also renders patriá (G3965), bayith (H1004)
“kine”
also renders bâqâr (H1241)
Where it appears
8 occurrences in the Hebrew text.
Deuteronomy 7:13 · HNcmpc/Sp2ms
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 28:4 · HNcmpc/Sp2ms
You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28:18 · HNcmpc/Sp2ms
The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 28:51 · HNcmpc/Sp2ms
They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Isaiah 30:24 · HC/Td/Ncmpa
The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
Judges 6:15 · HNcmsc/Sp1cs
He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”
Proverbs 14:4 HAcbpaPsalm 8:7 HC/Ncmpa
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