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# אֶלֶף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H504

**cattle** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cattle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/504/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶ֫לֶף: n.m. cattle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/504/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 8:8; only pl. cattle (Ph. אלף, Assyrian alpu, COTGloss.)—אֲלָפִים Pr 14:4 Is 30:24 used in tillage; subject to man ψ 8:8 (‖ צֹנֶה); their increase שְׁגַר אֲלָפֶיךָ a blessing Dt 7:13; 28:4, 18, 51 (‖ all עַשְׁתְּרֹת צֹאנֶ֑ךָ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: your cattle(s) (4); cattle(s) (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 8:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.8/#tree)

צֹנֶ֣ה וַאֲלָפִ֣ים כֻּלָּ֑ם וְ֝גַ֗ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹת שָׂדָֽי׃

*Word for word:* sheep and cattle(s) of.them all and also \[the\].animals of.\[the\].field

*JPS 1917:* Sheep and oxen, all of them, yea, and the beasts of the field;

[Proverbs 14:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.4/#tree)

בְּאֵ֣ין אֲ֭לָפִים אֵב֣וּס בָּ֑ר וְרָב־תְּ֝בוּא֗וֹת בְּכֹ֣חַ שֽׁוֹר׃

*Word for word:* when there.\[are\].not cattle(s) \[the\].feeding.trough \[is\].clean and abundance of.produce(s) \[is\].by.\[the\] strength of.an.ox

*JPS 1917:* Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/504.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/504/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).