bakar · cattle, herd

What it means

bakar (בָּקָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cattle, herd”.

Cattle: cows, oxen, bulls; a herd.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Large livestock: cows, oxen and bulls, for work, food and sacrifice.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Cattle: cows, oxen, bulls; taken together, the herd. BDB: a beeve or animal of the ox family, of either gender, as used for plowing; collectively, a herd.

• Wealth in livestock: sheep and cattle Genesis 12:16Genesis 18:7
• Offerings from the herd Leviticus 1:3Leviticus 4:3
• Oxen for plowing 1 Kings 19:211 Samuel 11:7

Historical and cultural background

In 1 Kings 19:21 Elisha, who was plowing with oxen, sacrifices the yoke, boils the meat “with the equipment of the oxen” and gives it to the people before following Elijah.

How we translate it

“Oxen” 49 times, “cattle” 44, “bull” 31, “herd” 26, “herds” 22, “young bulls” 5. In the laws of sacrifice it is “the herd” (“a burnt offering from the herd”, Leviticus 1:3), as against צֹאן, “the flock” (sheep and goats); counted by head or yoked, “oxen”; בֶּן־בָּקָר, “young bull” or “bull”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• oxen ×49
• cattle ×44
• bull ×31
• herd ×26
• herds ×22
• young bulls ×5
• like the ox ×3
• calf ×2
• calves ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×17
• Exodus×9
• Leviticus×12
• Numbers×50
• Deuteronomy×10
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×12
• 2 Samuel×7
• 1 Kings×12
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×18
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×6
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram because of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male slaves, female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 13:5

  Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheep, cattle, and tents.

• Genesis 18:7

  And to the herd Abraham ran, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the young man, who hurried to prepare it.

• Genesis 18:8

  He took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

• Genesis 20:14

  Then Abimelech took sheep and cattle, and male slaves and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and he returned to him Sarah his wife.

• Genesis 21:27

  Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

• Genesis 24:35

  YHWH has blessed my lord greatly, and he has become great. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 26:14

  He had flocks and herds and many servants, and the Philistines envied him.

• Genesis 32:7

  Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, the cattle, and the camels, into two camps.

• Genesis 33:13

  He said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the cattle that are nursing their young are in my care; if they are driven hard one day, all the flock will die.

• Genesis 34:28

  Their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, what was in the city and what was in the field, they took.

• Genesis 45:10

  You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me, you and your sons and the sons of your sons, your flocks and your herds, and all that you have.

• Genesis 46:32

  The men are shepherds of flocks, for they have been men of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

• Genesis 47:1

  Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan; and look, they are in the land of Goshen.”

• Genesis 47:17

  So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys; and he carried them through with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year.

• Genesis 50:8

  and all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household; only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.

• Exodus 9:3

  look, the hand of YHWH will be on your livestock that are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the cattle, and on the flocks, with a very severe pestilence.

• Exodus 10:9

  Moses said, “With our young and with our old we will go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go, for we have a feast of YHWH.”

• Exodus 10:24

  Then Pharaoh called to Moses and said, “Go, serve YHWH; only let your flocks and your herds be left behind; even your little ones may go with you.”

• Exodus 12:32

  Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go; and bless me too.”

• Exodus 12:38

  And also a great mixed crowd went up with them, and flocks and herds, livestock in very great numbers.

• Exodus 20:24

  An altar of earth you shall make for me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your flocks and your herds; in every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

• Exodus 22:1

  When a man steals an ox or a lamb and slaughters it or sells it, he shall repay five cattle for the ox and four sheep for the lamb.

• Exodus 29:1

  This is the thing that you shall do to them to consecrate them to serve as priests for me: take one young bull and two rams without defect,

• Exodus 34:3

  No man shall come up with you, and also let no man be seen on all the mountain; not even the flocks and the herds shall graze in front of that mountain.”

• Leviticus 1:2

  “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When anyone of you presents an offering to YHWH, from the beasts, from the herd or from the flock you shall present your offering.

• Leviticus 1:3

  If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall present a male without defect; at the entrance of the tent of meeting he shall present it, for his acceptance before YHWH.

• Leviticus 1:5

  He shall slaughter the young bull before YHWH, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall present the blood and splash the blood against the altar all around, the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 3:1

  And if his offering is a sacrifice of peace, if he presents it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall present it without defect before YHWH.

• Leviticus 4:3

  if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he shall present for his sin that he has sinned a young bull without defect to YHWH as a sin offering.

• Leviticus 4:14

  when the sin that they have sinned in it becomes known, the assembly shall present a young bull as a sin offering and bring it before the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 9:2

  He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a calf of the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before YHWH.

• Leviticus 16:3

  With this Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 22:19

  it shall be for your acceptance: a male without defect from the herd, from the sheep, or from the goats.

• Leviticus 22:21

  And when a man presents a sacrifice of peace to YHWH to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, it shall be without defect to be accepted; no defect shall be in it.

• Leviticus 23:18

  And with the bread you shall present seven lambs without defect, a year old, and one young bull and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to YHWH, with their grain offering and their libations, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 27:32

  And every tithe of the herd or of the flock, all that passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to YHWH.

• Numbers 7:3

  And they brought their offering before YHWH: six covered wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and an ox for each one; and they presented them before the dwelling.

• Numbers 7:6

  So Moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

• Numbers 7:7

  Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service;

And 143 more times.