בְּעִירbᵉʻîyr

beasts, cattle (Exodus 22:4; Numbers 20:4; Genesis 45:17; Numbers 20:8; Genesis 44:3)

Pronunciation: beh-ere' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1165

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 45:17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘This is what you must do: Load your pack animals, and hurry back to the land of Canaan.
  • Exodus 22:5 “If an animal is grazing in a field or vineyard and the owner lets it stray into someone else’s field to graze, then the animal’s owner must pay compensation from the best of his own grain or grapes.
  • Numbers 20:4 Why have you brought the congregation of the Lord’s people into this wilderness to die, along with all our livestock?
  • Numbers 20:8 “You and Aaron must take the staff and assemble the entire community. As the people watch, speak to the rock over there, and it will pour out its water. You will provide enough water from the rock to satisfy the whole community and their livestock.”
  • Numbers 20:11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the staff, and water gushed out. So the entire community and their livestock drank their fill.
  • Psalms 78:48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).