Gematria of Cattle
6 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “cattle” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 760 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 6
- Occurrences
- 760
- Distinct values
- 6
The 6 Hebrew words rendered “cattle”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
First appearance ·Genesis 4:2בראשית ד:בצֹאן
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:24בראשית א:כדבְּהֵמָה
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
First appearance ·Genesis 2:2בראשית ב:במְלַאכְתּוֹ
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
First appearance ·Genesis 4:20בראשית ד:כוּמִקְנֶֽה
a member of a flock, i.e. a sheep or goat
First appearance ·Genesis 22:7בראשית כב:זהַשֶּׂה
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of cattle?
The Tanakh renders “cattle” with 6 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: צאן = 141, בהמה = 52, מלאכה = 96, and 3 more.
How do you say cattle in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 6 Hebrew words for “cattle”; the most frequent are צאן (tsôʼn), 274 times; בהמה (bᵉhêmâh), 190 times; מלאכה (mᵉlâʼkâh), 167 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.