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בָּקָר

baqar

baw-kawr'

Strong's 1890 spelling: bâqâr

beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd

Rendered in the KJV as

beeve, bull ([phrase] -ock), [phrase] calf, [phrase] cow, great (cattle), [phrase] heifer, herd, kine, ox.

  • 183
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 24 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 76
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 183 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 76

  • בָּקָ֗ר16
  • בָּקָ֣ר15
  • בָּקָר֙10
  • הַבָּקָר֙9
  • הַבָּקָ֔ר9
  • בָּקָ֖ר8
  • בָּקָ֛ר7
  • וּבָקָ֖ר7
  • הַבָּקָ֖ר5
  • וּבָקָ֔ר5
  • בָקָ֛ר4
  • וּבָקָר֙4

and 64 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 43

  • cattle43
  • ox[en]19
  • and cattle18
  • the cattle15
  • the ox[en]15
  • [the] herd12
  • the herd8
  • and the cattle6
  • and herd3
  • like the ox3
  • and herd[s]2
  • and herd[s] their2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 21

  • noun · masculine or feminine singular78
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular39
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular25
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine singular8
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine singular2
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural2
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcbsa · 78
  • HTd/Ncbsa · 39
  • HC/Ncbsa · 25
  • HRd/Ncbsa · 8
  • HC/Td/Ncbsa · 7
  • HC/Ncbsc/Sp2ms · 3
  • HC/Ncbsc/Sp3mp · 3
  • HNcbsc/Sp2ms · 3
  • HC/Rd/Ncbsa · 2
  • HNcbsc/Sp2mp · 2
  • HNcbsc/Sp3mp · 2
  • HR/Ncbsc/Sp2ms · 2

All 183, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis17 occurrences
Exodus9 occurrences
Leviticus12 occurrences
Numbers50 occurrences
Deuteronomy10 occurrences
Judges1 occurrence
1 Samuel12 occurrences
2 Samuel7 occurrences
1 Kings12 occurrences
2 Kings2 occurrences
1 Chronicles6 occurrences
2 Chronicles18 occurrences
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Job4 occurrences
Psalms1 occurrence
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Isaiah5 occurrences
Jeremiah4 occurrences
Ezekiel6 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Joel1 occurrence
Amos1 occurrence
Jonah1 occurrence
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).