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# beeves

noun

«beeves» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Cattle, especially cows and oxen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beeves/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used; today we say cows or cattle.

### Examples

- and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beeves/#x1)
- and thirty and six thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.44, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beeves/#x2)
- And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve. (Torah NUM.31.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beeves/#x3)

### Note

Today: cows; oxen; cattle.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «beeves» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beeves/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«beeves» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/beeves.html) on Mova free.