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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H929
Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
H929
Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
H1165
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
H4735
And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
H929
And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
H4735
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
H4735
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
H4735
Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
H4735
Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
H4735
And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
H929
Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
H929
And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
H929
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
H929
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
H4735
But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
H4735
But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
H929
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
H929
And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
H929
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
H929
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
H929
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
H929
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
H929
And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
H929
And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
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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