noun · masculine
bouos
Strong’sG1016
an ox
stem bou-8 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
βοῦς, βοός, ὁ, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for בָּקָר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1016 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbooce
an ox (as grazing), i.e. an animal of that species ("beef")
Fromprobably from the base of G1006;
King Jamesox.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Doric dialect βῶς Refs 3rd c.BC+, poetry also βοῦ Refs 8th c.BC+ and Doric dialect, Refs 3rd c.BC+, Ionic dialect and poetry also βόα Refs 8th c.BC+, rarely contraction βοῦς Refs 5th c.BC+, contraction βῶν Refs 8th c.BC+, Epic dialect βόεσσι, βοσί Refs 1st c.AD+; Boeotian dialect βούεσσι Refs 8th c.BC+, and Attic dialect, NT+4th c.BC+:—bullock, bull, ox, or cow, in plural cattle, commonly feminine: to mark the male Refs 8th c.BC+ adds a word, β. ἄρσην Refs 8th c.BC+; as a measure of value, βοὸς ἄξιον Refs
b βοῦς ἄγριος buffalo, Refs 4th c.BC+
c βοῦς ἐν Συρίᾳ zebu, Refs; β. ἐν Παιονίᾳ, perhaps urus, Refs
d βοὸς ὄμμα, ={βούφθαλμος}, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 metaphorically of any dam or mother, μία β. Κρηθεῖ τε μάτηρ καὶ Σαλμωνεῖ Refs 5th c.BC+
II ={βοείη} or βοέη (always feminine), ox-hide shield, νωμῆσαι βῶν Refs 8th c.BC+; βόας αὔαςRefs 5th c.BC+
III a fish, perhaps Notidanus griseus, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.2 a fish of the Nile, Refs 1st c.BC+
IV ἔβδομος β. crescent loaf, Refs
V seam, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VI the constellation Taurus, Refs 1st c.BC+
VII ={μάστιξ}, Refs 5th c.AD+
VIII proverbial, β. ἐπὶ γλώσσης ἐπιβαίνων Refs 6th c.BC+; of people who keep silence from some weighty reason, τὸν βοῦν ἐπιτίθημι τῇ γλώττῃ Refs 4th c.AD+ (wrongly explained by Refs 2nd c.AD+; β. ἐν αὐλίῳ, of a useless person, Refs 5th c.BC+; β. λύρας 'pearls before swine', Refs 3rd c.BC+, Sanskrit gaús) accusative βῶν (Sanskrit gā´m) are old forms: stem βωϝ-βοϝ-, cf. Latin (Umbr.) bos, etc.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | bouos1×βοῦς | bouois |
| object accusative | bouon3×βοῦν | bouoin2×βόας |
| direct address vocative | bouor | bouoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | bouou | bouoiu2×βοῶν |
| to, for dative | bouo | bouoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
bouo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
bouos“ox”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 14:5… autoin legata; Tinou vu huios ē bouos eis freatem pipteti, kai ouk eutheōs …… Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the …
bouon“ox”objectaccusative singular3×
Luke 13:15… vu te sabbate ouk luatō ton bouon autou ē ton onon apo tau …… you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and …
1 Corinthians 9:9… to Mōusou nomo grafotē; Ouk kēmasi bouon aloarōnton. mē toiu bouoiu meleiatō to …… of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the …
1 Timothy 5:18legatō gar tas grafas; Bouon aloarōnton ouk fimasi, kai; Axios tos …… Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the …
bouoin“oxen”objectaccusative plural2×
John 2:14“oxen”… heuriskata en te hiere toin pōlarōntoin bouoin kai probateim kai peristerain kai toin …In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers …
John 2:15“oxen”… hiereu teim tē probateim kai toin bouoin, kai toiu kollubistoiu ekchata teim kermeim …… from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their …
bouoiu“oxen”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Luke 14:19kai heteros legata; Zeugeim bouoiu agorazama pente kai poreuomō dokimazara auteim; …… I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try …
1 Corinthians 9:9… Ouk kēmasi bouon aloarōnton. mē toiu bouoiu meleiatō to theo,… out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?