Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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Cattle
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John 4:12
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
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מִקְנֶה
miqneh · mik-neh'
63 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences
something bought, i.e. property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition
Strong's KJV usage: cattle, flock, herd, possession, purchase, substance.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 4:20Strong's last: Ezekiel 38:13
Open full H4735 profile →בְּהֵמָה
bᵉhêmâh · be-hay-maw'
53 times translated as this KJV form188 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
Strong's KJV usage: beast, cattle.
Strong's first: Genesis 1:24Strong's last: Zechariah 2:4
Open full H929 profile →צֹאן
tsôʼn · tsone
15 times translated as this KJV form264 total Strong's occurrences
a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
Strong's KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock ( -s), lamb ( -s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).
Strong's first: Genesis 30:39Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 2:7
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seh · seh
10 times translated as this KJV form45 total Strong's occurrences
a member of a flock, i.e. a sheep or goat
Strong's KJV usage: (lesser, small) cattle, ewe, goat, lamb, sheep. Compare 2089.
Strong's first: Genesis 30:32Strong's last: Ezekiel 34:22
Open full H7716 profile →מְרִיא
mᵉrîyʼ · mer-ee'
3 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
stall-fed; often (as noun) a beeve
Strong's KJV usage: fat (fed) beast (cattle, -ling).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 1:9Strong's last: 1 Kings 1:25
Open full H4806 profile →בְּעִיר
bᵉʻîyr · beh-ere'
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
cattle
Strong's KJV usage: beast, cattle.
Strong's first: Numbers 20:4Strong's last: Psalms 78:48
Open full H1165 profile →θρέμμα
thrémma · threm'-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
stock (as raised on a farm)
Strong's KJV usage: :--cattle.
Strong's first: John 4:12Strong's last: John 4:12
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poimaínō · poy-mah'-ee-no
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to tend as a shepherd of (figuratively, superviser)
Strong's KJV usage: :--feed (cattle), rule.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 17:7Strong's last: Luke 17:7
Open full G4165 profile →בָּקָר
bâqâr · baw-kawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form166 total Strong's occurrences
a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
Strong's KJV usage: beeve, bull ( -ock), calf, cow, great (cattle), heifer, herd, kine, ox.
Strong's first: Joel 1:18Strong's last: Joel 1:18
Open full H1241 profile →מְלָאכָה
mᵉlâʼkâh · mel-aw-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form159 total Strong's occurrences
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
Strong's KJV usage: business, cattle, industrious, occupation, ( -pied), officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 33:14Strong's last: Genesis 33:14
Open full H4399 profile →קָנָה
qânâh · kaw-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form84 total Strong's occurrences
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
Strong's KJV usage: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, × surely, × verily.
Strong's first: Zechariah 13:5Strong's last: Zechariah 13:5
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H7716
And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
H7716
And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
H7716
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
H7716
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
H7716
Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
H7716
Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
H4735
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
H4735
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
English meaning and historical usage.
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cattle
CATTLE, noun
1. Beasts or quadrupeds in general, serving for tillage, or other labor, and for food to man. In its primary sense, the word includes camels, horses, asses, all the varieties of domesticated horned beasts or the bovine genus, sheep of all kinds and goats, and perhaps swine. In this general sense, it is constantly used in the scriptures. See Job 1:3. Hence it would appear that the word properly signifies possessions, goods. But whether from a word originally signifying a beast, for in early ages beasts constituted the chief part of a mans property, or from a root signifying to get or possess. This word is restricted to domestic beasts; but in England it includes horses, which it ordinarily does not, in the United States, at least not in New-England.
2. In the United States, cattle in common usage, signifies only beasts of the bovine genus, oxen, bulls, cows and their young. In the laws respecting domestic beasts, horses, sheep, asses, mules and swine are distinguished from cattle or neat cattle Thus the law in Connecticut, requiring that all the owners of any cattle sheep or swine, shall ear-mark or brand all their cattle sheep and swine, does not extend to horses. Yet it is probable that a law, giving damages for a trespass committed by cattle breaking into an inclosure, would be adjudged to include horses.
In Great Britain, beasts are distinguished into black cattle including bulls, oxen, cows and their young; and small cattle including sheep of all kinds and goats.
3. In reproach, human beings are called cattle
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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