Cattle

(Of the bovine species)

Used for sacrifice

• 1 Kings 8:63

  And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

Sheltered

• Genesis 33:17

  And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Stall-fed

• Proverbs 15:17

  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Gilead adapted to the raising of

• Numbers 32:1–4

  Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, …

Bashan suitable to the raising of

• Psalms 22:12

  Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

• Ezekiel 39:18

  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

• Amos 4:1

  Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.