1241. baqar
Lexical Summary
baqar: cattle, herd, an ox
Original Word: בָּקָר
Transliteration: baqar
Phonetic Spelling: (baw-kawr')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: cattle, herd, an ox
Meaning: beef cattle, ox, a herd
Strong's Concordance
bull, calf, cow, great cattle, heifer, herd,

From baqar; beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd -- beeve, bull (+ -ock), + calf, + cow, great (cattle), + heifer, herd, kine, ox.

see HEBREW baqar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1241. baqar

בָּקָר182 noun masculine1 Kings 5:3 + (feminineGenesis 33:16; Job 1:14 compare Deuteronomy 32:14 2 Samuel 17:29) cattle, herd, ox (Arabic , Aramaic בַּקְרְתָא בַּקְרָא,‎, (compare also HomNS 222 ff.); name from ploughing, so Thes LagBN 51 and others) — absolute ׳בּGenesis 12:16 +; construct בְּקַרNumbers 7:88; suffix בְּקָֽרְךָGenesis 45:10 +; בְּקָרֶ֑ךָExodus 20:24; Jeremiah 5:17; בְּקָרוֺ1 Samuel 11:7; 2 Samuel 12:4; בְּקַרְכֶםDeuteronomy 12:6; בְּקָרָםJeremiah 3:24 +; plural בְּקָרִיםAmos 6:12 (al. read ים בקר‎) 2 Chronicles 4:3 (but read מְּקָעִים‎ see "" 1 Kings 7:24 below); suffix בְּקָרֵינוּNehemiah 10:37; read בקריכם‎ for בחוריכם1 Samuel 8:16 ᵐ5‎ We Dr; —

1 mostly coll.

a. cattle, Generic (never plural in form) Genesis 12:6; 13:5; 20:14; 21:27; 24:35; Leviticus 1:2; Deuteronomy 8:13; 1 Samuel 11:5; Hosea 5:6; Joel 1:18; 1 Chronicles 27:29 (twice in verse) + often (frequently "" צאֹן‎); as grazing, 27:29 +; in simile ׳כַּבּJob 40:15; Isaiah 11:7; 65:25; as lowing (הַבּ ׳קוֺל‎) 1 Samuel 15:14; בָקָר מִקְנֵהpossession of (i.e. property in) cattle Genesis 6:14; 47:17 (both J); ב ׳עֶדְרֵיJoel 1:18 herds of cattle; especially בֶּןבָּֿקָרson of cattle (i.e. belonging to the בקר‎), to denote a single ox, calf, etc.; as used for food Genesis 18:7 compare 18:8 (J); — in these probably = calf (see also 1 Samuel 14:32 בָקָר וּבְנֵי בָּקָר‎); usually for sacrifice (Hexateuch only P) Numbers 15:8-9, ׳בֶּןהַֿבּLeviticus 1:5; appositive עֵגֶל9:2; — compare בָּקָר עֶגְלַתDeuteronomy 21:3; 1 Samuel 16:2; Isaiah 7:21; — mostly appositive מַּרExodus 29:1 27t.; also plural בקר בני מָּרִיםNumbers 28:11, 19, 27; 29:13, 17 (on all these compare בֵּן‎); also indefinite cattle, oxen, of a number not specified 7:87-88, (in both enumerated as מָּרִים‎); 22:40; 1 Samuel 14:32; 15:21; 1 Kings 1:9; 7:29 (twice in verse) (here of graven work) 8:5; 1 Chronicles 12:40; 2 Chronicles 5:6; 18:2; Isaiah 22:13; Psalm 66:15; also as beasts of burden 1 Chronicles 12:40.

b. a particulur herd of cattle Genesis 18:7 (J); compare plural בְּקָרֵינוּ‎, our herds, only Nehemiah 10:37.

2 more individually, head of cattle, — yet always of more than one (Hexateuch mostly P; plural only Amos 6:12 2 Chronicles 4:3 see above); of two Numbers 7:17 11t. Numbers 7; compare also ב ׳צֶמֶדyoke (pair) of oxen 1 Samuel 11:7 compare 11:7, 1 Kings 19:21 compare 19:21 (ploughing, compare 19:19); also 2 Samuel 6:6 = 1 Chronicles 13:9 (drawing a cart, compare Numbers 7:3f.; 1 Samuel 6:7f.), 2 Samuel 24:22 = 1 Chronicles 21:33, 24:22, 24; 1 Kings 19:20; Amos 6:12 (plural); 500 yoke of oxen Job 1:3 compare 1:14; 1000yoke 42:12; further, of four Numbers 7:7; five Exodus 21:37 (הַשּׁוֺר תַּחַת‎); seven 2 Chronicles 29:22 ("" מָּרִים29:21); eight Numbers 7:8; ten 1 Kings 5:3; twelve Numbers 7:3 (singly called שׁוֺר‎) compare 7:6; of the twelve brazen bulls beneath the sea in Solomon's temple 1 Kings 7:25, 44 2 Chronicles 4:4, 15 compare 2 Kings 16:17; 2 Chronicles 4:3 (בְּקָרִים דְּמוּת‎) 4:3 (but read in both מְּקָעִים‎, as "" 1 Kings 7:24 compare Be Öttli) 7:4; Jeremiah 52:20; of twenty 1 Kings 5:3; seventy 2 Chronicles 29:32; hundreds or thousands 1 Kings 8:63 2 Chronicles 7:5; 15:11; 29:33; 35:7-8, 9 (compare 35:12), & Numbers 31:33, 38, 44 . Note בָּקָר חֶמְאַתDeuteronomy 32:14 (poem), ב ׳שְׁפוֺת2 Samuel 17:29, הַבּ ׳כְּלִי24:22; 1 Kings 19:21, ׳הַבּ מַלְמַדJudges 3:31, הַבּ ׳צְפִו֯עֵיEzekiel 4:15 (opposed to הָאָדָם גֶּלֲלֵי‎).








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