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# בְּעִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1165

**beasts** — used 6 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

beasts [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1165/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּעִיר: n.m. beasts, cattle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1165/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 22:4 beasts, cattle, coll. (NH id., Aramaic id., ܒܥܺܝܪܳܐ, Ethiopic ብዕራዊ etc., Sab. בער DHMZMG 1876, 674; 1883, 329; Arabic بَعِيرٌ of camel; also ass, etc., cf. Lane 227 a; connexion with above √ obscure)—sf. בְּעִירֹה Ex 22:4, בְּעִירֵנוּ Nu 20:4, בְּעִירְכֶם Gn 45:17, בְּעִירָם Nu 20:8 + 2 times;—beasts of burden Gn 45:17 (i.e. asses 44:3, 13); elsewhere general, cattle Ex 22:4 Nu 20:4, 8, 11 ψ 78:48.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cattle (5); animal\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.48/#tree)

וַיַּסְגֵּ֣ר לַבָּרָ֣ד בְּעִירָ֑ם וּ֝מִקְנֵיהֶ֗ם לָרְשָׁפִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.delivered.up to (the) hail cattle their and livestock their to.(the) lightning bolts

*JPS 1917:* He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.

[Numbers 20:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.20.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.20.4/#tree)

וְלָמָ֤ה הֲבֵאתֶם֙ אֶת־קְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה לָמ֣וּת שָׁ֔ם אֲנַ֖חְנוּ וּבְעִירֵֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* and why? did.you.bring (et) the.assembly of.Yahweh into the wilderness (the) this to die there we and cattle our

*JPS 1917:* And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1165.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1165/): 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).