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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Cattle

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

153exact KJV occurrences 151Old Testament 2New Testament 25books containing the word 11mapped Strong's IDs 151occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

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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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where cattle appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 5343 verses Exodus 1513 verses Leviticus 55 verses Numbers 1410 verses Deuteronomy 1312 verses Joshua 77 verses Judges 22 verses 1 Samuel 22 verses 1 Kings 33 verses 2 Kings 22 verses 1 Chronicles 33 verses 2 Chronicles 44 verses Nehemiah 22 verses Job 11 verses Psalms 55 verses Ecclesiastes 11 verses Isaiah 44 verses Jeremiah 22 verses Ezekiel 85 verses Joel 11 verses Jonah 11 verses Haggai 11 verses Zechariah 22 verses Luke 11 verses John 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH929
בְּהֵמָה

bᵉhêmâh · be-hay-maw'

53 times translated as this KJV form188 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)

Strong's KJV usage: beast, cattle.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 1:24Strong's last: Zechariah 2:4

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GreekG2353
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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HebrewH4399
מְלָאכָה

mᵉlâʼkâh · mel-aw-kaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form159 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

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

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HebrewH7069
קָנָה

qânâh · kaw-naw'

1 times translated as this KJV form84 total Strong's occurrences

v

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Zechariah 13:5Strong's last: Zechariah 13:5

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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153 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 47:17
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.

Genesis 47:17
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.

Genesis 47:18
H929

When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

Exodus 9:3
H4735

Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

Exodus 9:4
H4735

And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.

Exodus 9:4
H4735

And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.

Exodus 9:6
H4735

And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

Exodus 9:6
H4735

And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

Exodus 9:7
H4735

And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

Exodus 9:19
H4735

Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

Exodus 9:20
H4735

He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

Exodus 9:21
H4735

And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.

Exodus 10:26
H4735

Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.

Exodus 12:29
H929

And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

Exodus 12:38
H4735

And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

Exodus 17:3
H4735

And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

Exodus 20:10
H929

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Exodus 34:19
H4735

All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

Leviticus 1:2
H929

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.

Leviticus 5:2
H929

Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

Leviticus 19:19
H929

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Leviticus 25:7
H929

And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

Leviticus 26:22
H929

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Numbers 3:41
H929

And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.

Numbers 3:41
H929

And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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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