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Gematria of Herd

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “herd” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 298 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
3
Occurrences
298
Distinct values
3

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “herd”

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.

בָּקָרbâqâr×183 in the TanakhH1241

beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd

Standard 302 →Gadol 302Katan 5Siduri (ordinal) 41Atbash 307Perati 50,004Milui 1,108

First appearance ·Genesis 12:16בראשית יב:טזוּבָקָר

See all 119 occurrences of the spelling בקר →

מִקְנֶהmiqneh×76 in the TanakhH4735

something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition

Standard 195 →Gadol 195Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 51Atbash 113Perati 14,125Milui 378

First appearance ·Genesis 4:20בראשית ד:כוּמִקְנֶֽה

See all 25 occurrences of the spelling מקנה →

עֵדֶרʻêder×39 in the TanakhH5739

an arrangement, i.e. muster (of animals)

Standard 274 →Gadol 274Katan 13Siduri (ordinal) 40Atbash 110Perati 44,916Milui 1,074

First appearance ·Genesis 29:2בראשית כט:בעֶדְרֵי

See all 8 occurrences of the spelling עדר →

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What is the gematria of herd?

The Tanakh renders “herd” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: בקר = 302, מקנה = 195 and עדר = 274.

How do you say herd in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “herd”; the most frequent are בקר (bâqâr), 183 times; מקנה (miqneh), 76 times; עדר (ʻêder), 39 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.