בְּעִיר
beir · animals, livestock
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1165 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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beir (בְּעִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “animals, livestock”.
Beasts of burden, livestock.
How to say it
be·ir
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
- A household's animals: beasts of burden and herds.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- livestock ×4
- animals ×1
- cattle ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 45:17
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your animals and set out, go to the land of Canaan,
- Exodus 22:5
When a man lets a field or a vineyard be grazed over, and lets loose his livestock and it grazes in another's field, he shall repay from the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.
- Numbers 20:4
And why have you brought the assembly of YHWH into this wilderness, to die there, we and our livestock?
- Numbers 20:8
“Take the staff, and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the crag before their eyes so that it will give its water. And you shall bring out water for them from the crag and give drink to the community and to their livestock.”
- Numbers 20:11
And Moses raised his hand and struck the crag with his staff twice, and much water came out, and the community and their livestock drank.
- Psalms 78:48
And he gave over to the hail their cattle, and their herds to the flames.