the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

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”.

This mistranslation is most likely due to a metaphorical use of the cattle motif to indicate time of day and time of season by use of the easily recognizable constellation known as Taurus.

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