Strong’s H1165 · Hebrew

בְּעִיר
bᵉʻîyr
beh-ere'

Definition

cattle

Etymology

from H1197 (בָּעַר) (in the sense of eating);

Where the KJV renders it

  • beast
  • cattle

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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