βουκόλιον
herd of cattle
Where this word appears
Every passage where βουκόλιον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 15 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 13:12 βουκόλιον that you shall set apart every offspring opening the womb, the males to the Lord, every one that opens the womb out of the herds or among your cattle, as many as you shall have: you shall sanctify the males to the Lord.
- Leviticus 22:19 βουκόλιον your free will offerings shall be males without blemish of the herds, or of the sheep, or of the goats.
- Leviticus 22:21 βουκόλιον And whatever man shall offer a peace-offering to the Lord, discharging a vow, or in the way of free will offering, or an offering in your feasts, of the herds or of the sheep, it shall be without blemish for acceptance: there shall be no blemish in it.
- Leviticus 23:18 βουκόλιον And you⌃ shall bring with the loaves seven unblemished lambs of a year old, and one calf of the herd, and two rams without blemish, and they shall be a whole burnt offering to the Lord: and their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings shall be a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 7:13 βουκόλιον And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; and he will bless the off-spring of your body, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to you.
- Deuteronomy 28:4 βουκόλιον Blessed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, and the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.
- Deuteronomy 28:18 βουκόλιον Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.
- Deuteronomy 28:51 βουκόλιον And it shall eat up the young of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you corn, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it shall have destroyed you;
- 1 Samuel 8:16 βουκόλιον And he will take your servants, and your handmaids, and your good herds and your asses, and will take the tenth of them for his works.
- 1 Samuel 14:32 βουκόλιον And the people turned to the spoil; and the people took flocks, and herds, and calves, and killed them on the ground, and the people ate with the blood.
- 1 Samuel 15:21 βουκόλιον But the people took of the spoils the best flocks and herds out of that which was destroyed, to sacrifice before the Lord our God in Galgal.
- 1 Samuel 27:9 βουκόλιον And he struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive; and they took flocks, and herds, and asses, and camels, and raiment; and they returned and came to Anchus.
- 1 Samuel 30:20 βουκόλιον And he took all the flocks, and the herds, and led them away before the spoils: and it was said of these spoils, These are the spoils of David.
- 2 Samuel 12:2 βουκόλιον And the rich man had very many flocks and herds.
- Joel 1:18 βουκόλιον What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.
About this word
About this word
βουκόλιον (boukólion), “herd of cattle,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 15 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →