שׁוֹר shor

Hebrew word for “cattle” · Strong’s H7794 · used 79 times in 69 verses

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Meaning

1) ox, bull, a head of cattle; 1a) for plowing, for food, as sacrifice; Aramaic equivalent: tor (תּוֹר "bullock" H8450)

How it is translated

Glosses given for shor in context, with how often each is used:

• ox 62
• oxen 9
• bull 2
• more than an ox 2
• will be an ox 1
• cow 1
• like an ox 1
• bulls 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 21 (6), Exodus 22 (5), Leviticus 9 (3), Leviticus 22 (3), Deuteronomy 22 (3), Exodus 23 (2), Deuteronomy 5 (2), Judges 6 (2), 1 Kings 1 (2), Genesis 32 (1)

Forms

• שׁור 37
• השׁור 13
• שׁורו 7
• ושׁור 6
• משׁור 5
• שׁורך 3
• ושׁורו 1
• והשׁור 1
• לשׁרך 1
• לשׁור 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shor more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שֶׂה seh “sheep” 20
• חֲמוֹר chamor “donkey” 22
• אוֹ o “or” 15
• זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 8
• צֹאן tson “flock” 9
• כֶּשֶׂב kesev “sheep” 5
• עֵז ez “goat” 6
• אָמָה amah “maidservant” 5
• שָׁחַט shachat “to slaughter” 5
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 7
• רֵעַ rea “neighbor” 5
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 7

Key verses

The verses using shor that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 49:6 — O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill…
• Exodus 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor…
• Deuteronomy 33:17 — His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the…
• Joshua 6:21 — And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
• Joshua 7:24 — And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and…
• 1 Samuel 12:3 — Behold, here I witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom…
• 1 Samuel 15:3 — Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and…
• 1 Kings 1:25 — For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and…
• Isaiah 1:3 — The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
• Isaiah 66:3 — He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s…
• Ezekiel 1:10 — As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left…
• Hosea 12:11 — Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.