ʼeleph — H504

Definition

masculine noun

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

1. cattle, oxen
1. in farming
2. as a possession

Usually translated as

kine, oxen, family

Origin

from H502

• Derived from ʼâlaph (H502)

Greek equivalents

• taûros (G5022)

Occurrences

ʼeleph occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (4), Judges (1), Psalms (1), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1)

• Deuteronomy 7:13 — And 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 (אֲלָפֶ֙יךָ֙), and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
• Deuteronomy 28:4 — Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine (אֲלָפֶ֖יךָ), and the flocks of thy sheep.
• Deuteronomy 28:18 — Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine (אֲלָפֶ֖יךָ), and the flocks of thy sheep.
• Deuteronomy 28:51 — And 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 (אֲלָפֶ֖יךָ), or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
• Judges 6:15 — And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.
• Psalms 8:7 — All sheep and oxen (וַאֲלָפִ֣ים), yea, and the beasts of the field;
• Proverbs 14:4 — Where no oxen (אֲ֭לָפִים) are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
• Isaiah 30:24 — The oxen (וְהָאֲלָפִ֣ים) likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.