2001 Translation

BOES, boes

Sounds Like: BOH-es

Translations: oxen, cattle

From the root: ΒΟΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: ΒΟΕΣ is the plural form of the noun ΒΟΥΣ, which means 'ox' or 'cow'. It refers to domesticated bovine animals, typically used for labor such as plowing, or raised as livestock for meat or milk. In its plural form, it refers to a group of these animals, commonly translated as 'oxen' or 'cattle'.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative or Accusative, Masculine or Feminine

Strong’s number: G1016 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Psalms — 49:10, 143:14
• Proverbs — 14:4
• Isaiah — 30:24
• Matthew — 1:5

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 5:86
• Book 6 — 1:14

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 22:8

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 9:3, 9:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 13:5, 30:43, 32:5, 33:13, 41:2, 41:3, 41:4, 41:18, 41:19, 41:20, 41:26, 41:27, 45:10, 47:1
• Exodus — 12:38, 34:3
• Numbers — 7:87, 7:88, 11:22, 31:33, 31:38, 31:44
• 1 Samuel — 6:12
• 2 Samuel — 24:22
• 1 Kings — 2:46, 4:23, 7:13, 7:16
• Psalms — 49:10, 143:14
• Odes — 6:17
• Proverbs — 14:4
• Isaiah — 30:24
• Jonah — 3:7
• Habakkuk — 3:17

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 1:5

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΟΥΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΒΟʼΟΣ — of an ox, of a cow, of cattle
• ΒΟΑΣ — oxen, cattle
• ΒΟΥΣ — ox, an ox, cow, a cow, cattle
• ΒΟΥΣΙΝ — to oxen, to cattle, to a bull, to an ox, to a cow

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