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# beeves

«beeves» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **cows; oxen; cattle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

cows; oxen; cattle

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

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

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say cows or cattle.

### examples

- and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beeves/#x3)

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 6 (Torah 6, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [and threescore and twelve thousand beeves,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1127/)
- [And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1132/)
- [and thirty and six thousand beeves,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1138/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beeves» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beeves/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.