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# cattle

«cattle» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **livestock; farm animals** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

livestock; farm animals

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Animals kept on a farm, such as cows, sheep, goats or camels, and sometimes wealth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cattle/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it mostly means cows and bulls. In these texts it means all farm animals, and it can stand for wealth.

### examples

- And they brought their cattle unto Joseph. (Torah GEN.47.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cattle/#x1)
- ‘Raleô, raleô, How the cattle go!’ (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cattle/#x2)
- And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. (Torah GEN.13.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cattle/#x3)

### primary record

cattle

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 311 (Torah 87, tales 223, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 2; ratio 7.0 (Torah alone 40.6); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.109/)
- [And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.335/)
- [And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.340/)
- [And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.917/)
- [Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.942/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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