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family, kine, oxen

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Plural of cow

(Gen. 41:17-21¹⁷And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: ¹⁸And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favored; and they fed in a meadow: ¹⁹And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favored and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: ²⁰And the lean and the ill favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: ²¹And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke. (Genesis 41:17‑21)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

A word generally signifying “cows,” but its use is not strictly confined to the female (compare Deut. 7:13¹³And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. (Deuteronomy 7:13); Deut. 28:4,18,51⁴Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. (Deuteronomy 28:4)
¹⁸Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. (Deuteronomy 28:18)
⁵¹And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. (Deuteronomy 28:51)).

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Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

504 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

’eleph

Phonic:

eh’-lef

Meaning:

from 502; a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow

KJV Usage:

family, kine, oxen