Cow, Kine
Cow, Kine
kou, kn (, bakar (compare Arabic bakar, cow); , eghlath bakar (Isa 7:21); , parah (compare Arabic furar, young of a sheep, goat, or cow); , paroth aloth (1Sa 6:7, 1Sa 6:10), milch kine, from , ul , to suckle; , ‘eleph): In Amo 4:1, the term, kine of Bashan, is applied to the voluptuous women of Samaria. In Gen 41:1-36 is the narration of Pharaoh’s dream of the seven fat and seven lean kine. In Isaiah’s vision (Isa 11:7) we have: And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together. Cows do not seem to have been sacrificed. The sacrifice of the kine that brought the ark back from the Philistines (1Sa 6:14) was due to the exceptional circumstances. See CALF; CATTLE.