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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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
Open full G2353 profile →ποιμαίνω
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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H6629
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
H6629
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
H6629
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
H4735
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
H6629
And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
H6629
And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
H6629
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
H4735
And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
H4735
And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
H6629
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
H6629
And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
H6629
And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
H4399
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
H4735
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
H4735
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
H4735
Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
H4735
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
H4735
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
H4735
And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
H4735
And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
H4735
That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
H4735
The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
H4735
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
H4735
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
H4735
And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
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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