--- title: שׁוֹר — a head of cattle · The Tanakh dictionary description: שׁוֹר (7794), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 79 times: a head of cattle. BDB 1906: n.m. head of cattle. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7794.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ש](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1513-3.md)‎ / שׁוֹר‎ # שׁוֹר «שׁוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a head of cattle** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 79 times · **Key:** 7794 · **BDB:** שׁוֹר ### Glosses an.ox (24); ox (21); ox\[en\] (7) ### Meaning (OSHB) a head of cattle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7794/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. head of cattle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7794/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ne 5:18 a head of cattle, bullock, ox, etc. (often + חֲמוֹר, שֶׂה, etc.);—שׁ׳ abs. Is 1:3 +, cstr. Ex 21:35 +, sf. שׁוֹרוֹ 20:17 +, etc.; pl. שְׁוָרִים Ho 12:12;—usually a single head of cattle, without emphasis on sex (opp. בָּקָר coll. Ex 21:37; Nu 7:3): as property, spoil of war, etc. Ex 20:17 (E; Gi v 14) = Dt 5:18, cf. Dt 5:14; Ex 21:33 (E) ‖ Dt 22:4; Ex 21:37(×2) (‖ בָּקָר of five head), 22:3, 8, 9, 29; 23:12 (all E), Dt 22:1; Gn 49:6 (poem in J), Dt 28:31; Ju 6:4; 1 S 12:3; Jb 24:3; as licking up (לָחַךְ) grass Nu 22:4 (J), feeding ψ 106:20 (in ref. to golden calf), cf. Is 7:25; 32:20; lowing Jb 6:5; as intelligent Is 1:3, vicious (goring נָגַח) Ex 21:28(×3) + 11 times Ex 21 (E); used in ploughing Dt 22:10, threshing 25:4, cf. Pr 14:4; drawing wagon Nu 7:3 (P; opp. בָּקָר coll.); פְּנֵי שׁ׳ Ez 1:10; specif. of male †Jb 21:10 (opp. פָּרָה), of female †Lv 22:28 (H), perhaps also Nu 18:17 (P), appar. generic Dt 15:19; 33:17 (poem, fig.); rarely coll. Gn 32:6 (+ צֹאן), Ex 34:19—cf. Lv 27:26 (P)—Jos 6:21; 7:24 (all J), 1 S 15:3; 22:19; †as slaughtered Pr 7:22, for food 1 S 14:34(×2) (but v b read (אֶת־)אֲשֶׁר with 𝔊 Th We Dr al.), 1 K 1:19, 25; Dt 14:4; Lv 17:3 (H), cf. Ne 5:18 (שׁ׳ אֶחָר), Pr 15:17; for †sacrifice Ju 6:25 (פַּר־הַשּׁ׳, text strange, cf. GFM), ψ 69:32 (שׁוֹר פָּר, but join פָּר to v b Bae), 2 S 6:13; Ho 12:12; Lv 9:4, 18 (P), 22:23, 27 (H), Nu 15:11 (P), Dt 17:1; 18:3, cf. Lv 7:23; 9:19; מִשּׁוֹר זֶבַח Lv 4:10 (P); illicit sacrifice Is 66:3. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 63 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (22 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (18 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «שׁוֹר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7794/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Deuteronomy 25:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.4/) לֹא־תַחְסֹ֥ם שׁ֖וֹר בְּדִישֽׁוֹ׃ס *Word for word:* not you.will.muzzle an.ox when threshes it *JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. [Job 24:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.3/) חֲמ֣וֹר יְתוֹמִ֣ים יִנְהָ֑גוּ יַ֝חְבְּל֗וּ שׁ֣וֹר אַלְמָנָֽה׃ *Word for word:* \[the\].donkey of.fatherless.ones they.drive.away they.take.as.pledge \[the\].ox of.a.widow *JPS 1917:* They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. - ← previous: [שׁוּר](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7793.md) - next →: [שׂוֹרָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7795.md) - ↑ back to [ש](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1513-3.md)