the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

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beqer

בקר

'beqer' refers to all things bovine or cattle related; including cows, bulls, and calves, as well as beef. Contextual examples abound and are quite clear.¹⁾

Despite this fact, most traditional translations do not treat the word with consistency. Rather, around half of the instances²⁾ are correctly interpreted as cattle, but approximately half³⁾ of the instances are erroneously translated as “morning”.

LexID 1241

¹⁾

In the book of Genesis alone numerous examples apply: Genesis 12:16, 13:5, 18:7-8, 20:14, 21:27, 24:35, 26:14, 32:7, 33:13, 34:28, 45:10, 46:32, 47:1, 47:17, 50:8

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181 times

³⁾

210 times