OX, OXEN, HERD, CATTLE<\/p>\n
1. shr, Gen 32:5, 1Sa 22:19 etc.; Aram. [Note: Aramaic.] tor (cf. Arab-thaur) is used in Ezr 6:8; Ezr 6:17; Ezr 7:17 and Dan 4:25; Dan 4:32-33; shr is used collectively and also for a single member of the bovine species of any age and either sex.<\/p>\n
2. lphm (only in pl.); a general term for oxen, Deu 7:13; Deu 28:4; Deu 28:18; Deu 28:51, Psa 8:7, Pro 14:4, Isa 30:24.<\/p>\n
3. par young hull, bullock; and prh young cow. See Heifer.<\/p>\n
4. abbr (in plur.) bulls in Psa 22:12; Psa 50:13, Isa 34:7; but strong ones or horses elsewhere.<\/p>\n
5. te, Deu 14:5 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] wild ox, RV [Note: Revised Version.] antelope; t. Isa 51:20 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] wild bull, RV [Note: Revised Version.] antelope.<\/p>\n
6. dher herd; in Joe 1:18 conjoined with bqr = herds of oxen; and in same versa with tsn = herds (EV [Note: English Version.] flocks) of small cattle (sheep and goats).<\/p>\n
7. migneh usually tr. [Note: translate or translation.] cattle; in Gen 47:17 conjoined with bgr = herds (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] cattle of the herds.<\/p>\n
8. bhmah cattle; in Gen 47:18 conjoined with migneh = herds of cattle.<\/p>\n
Oxen are specially valuable in Palestine for ploughing (Deu 22:19, 1Ki 19:19) and for threshing, i.e. treading out the corn (Deu 25:4, Hos 10:11). They were used for carts (Num 7:3); the Circassians, recently settled in Palestine, use them extensively in this way, but not the fellahn. In 1Ch 12:40 oxen are also mentioned as burden-bearers. Their use for sacrifice is repeatedly referred to (see 1Ki 8:53, 2Ch 29:33). The cattle of Palestine are small and mostly lean, owing to poor food and much work. They are most plentiful in Galilee, where the pasturage is better; and a much larger breed, the cows of which give excellent milk, flourishes around Damascus. In several parts of the Jordan Valley, notably in el-Batiha, N. of Lake of Tiberias, and near Lake Huleh, the buffalo or jamus (Bosbubalus) is kept by the Bedouin; it yields excellent milk.<\/p>\n
For the wild ox (RV [Note: Revised Version.] tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of rm), see Unicorn.<\/p>\n
E. W. G. Masterman.<\/p>\n
Ox, Oxen, Herd, Cattle OX, OXEN, HERD, CATTLE 1. shr, Gen 32:5, 1Sa 22:19 etc.; Aram. [Note: Aramaic.] tor (cf. Arab-thaur) is used in Ezr 6:8; Ezr 6:17; Ezr 7:17 and Dan 4:25; Dan 4:32-33; shr is used collectively and also for a single member of the bovine species of any age and either sex. … Continue reading “Ox, Oxen, Herd, Cattle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}