2001 Translation

BOAS, boas

Sounds Like: boh-AS

Translations: oxen, cattle

From the root: ΒΟΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to bovine animals, such as oxen or cattle. It is used to denote a group of these animals, often in the context of livestock or possessions.

Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine or Feminine

Strong’s number: G1016 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:33

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judith — 2:17
• Tobit — 8:19, 10:10
• Psalms — 8:8, 65:15
• Sirach — 38:25
• John — 2:14, 2:15

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 5:81
• Book 3 — 8:220, 8:222, 10:238
• Book 4 — 7:163
• Book 6 — 1:11, 1:15
• Book 7 — 13:331
• Book 8 — 2:40, 13:354
• Book 17 — 13:347

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 7:13

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 10:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 18:7, 32:7, 32:15, 34:28, 41:4, 41:20, 46:32, 50:8
• Exodus — 12:32, 14:15
• Numbers — 7:3, 7:6, 7:7, 7:8
• Deuteronomy — 16:2
• 1 Samuel — 6:7, 6:10, 6:14, 11:7
• 2 Samuel — 24:24
• 1 Kings — 7:30, 8:5, 18:23, 19:20
• 2 Kings — 5:26
• Judith — 2:17
• Tobit — 8:19, 10:10
• Psalms — 8:8, 65:15
• Sirach — 38:25

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• John — 2:14, 2:15

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
• ΒΟΕΣ — 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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