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title: בְּעִיר — beasts · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּעִיר (1165), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: beasts. BDB 1906: n.m. beasts, cattle. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּעִיר

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«בְּעִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **beasts** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 1165 · **BDB:** בְּעִיר

### Glosses

cattle (5); animal\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּעִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1165/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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?

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