1. cattle, herd (bovine livestock) — Collective noun for bovine cattle viewed as a herd or as individual oxen/cows; covers all grammatical inflections including articled, conjoined, prepositional, and suffixed forms, as well as contextual renderings such as 'oxen' or 'bulls' where the referent narrows to adult males within the same bovine collective — confirmed by uniform Arabic cognate بَقَر (baqar), Korean 소 (so), and Swahili ng'ombe across all occurrences with no translation-signature differentiation. 183×
AR["الْبَقَرِ","بَقَرٍ"]·ben["গবাদি-পশুর","গরুর","গোরু","গোরুর"]·DE["Herde","Rind","Rinder","von-Rindern"]·EN["cattle","herd"]·FR["bétail","troupeau"]·heb["בקר"]·HI["गाय","गाय-का","गोवंश-का","पशु","बैल-क","बैल-का","बैलों-का"]·ID["lembu","sapi"]·IT["bestiame","mandria"]·jav["lembu","sapi"]·KO["소","소-떼","소-의","소떼의","소와","소의"]·PT["gado"]·RU["крупного-скота","скота","стада"]·ES["ganado","ganado-vacuno","vacuno"]·SW["ng'ombe","wa-ng'ombe"]·TR["sığır","sığırın"]·urd["بیلوں","ریوڑ-کا","مویشی-کے","گائوں-کا","گائیوں-کے","گائے-بیل","گائے-کا"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
בָּקָר182 n.m. 1 K 5:3 + (f. Gn 33:13; Jb 1:14 cf. Dt 32:14 2 S 17:29) cattle, herd, ox (Arabic بَقَرٌ, Aramaic בַּקְרָא, בַּקְרְתָא, ܒܰܩܪܳܐ (cf. also HomNS 222 ff.); name from ploughing, so Thes LagBN 51 al.)—abs. בּ׳ Gn 12:16 +; cstr. בְּקַר Nu 7:88; sf. בְּקָֽרְךָ Gn 45:10 +; בְּקָרֶ֑ךָ Ex 20:24 Je 5:17; בְּקָרוֹ 1 S 11:7 2 S 12:4; בְּקַרְכֶם Dt 12:6; בְּקָרָם Je 3:24 +; pl. בְּקָרִים Am 6:12…