Cattle

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(Of the bovine species)

Used for sacrifice

• 1 Kings 8:63 And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

See Heifer

See Offerings

Sheltered

• Genesis 33:17 but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.

Stall-fed

• Proverbs 15:17 Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Gilead adapted to the raising of

• Numbers 32:1–4 Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock. So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation, and said, “Ataroth, Dibon, Jaze…

Bashan suitable to the raising of

• Psalm 22:12 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
• Ezekiel 39:18 You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls — all the fattened animals of Bashan.
• Amos 4:1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

See Animals

See Bull

See Bullock

See Cow

See Heifer

See Kine

See Offering