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Genesis 12:16

and to Raised-Father he has done well in account of her, and he is becoming to-himself483 a sheep and a ploughing-one,484 and fermenting-one,485 and men-slaves, and slavewomen, and everflowing-ones, and camels.

Footnote:

484

To Plough – The Ox

Strong’s #1241, baqar. Ploughing-one (Ox). Singular noun from root baqar (#1239) to plough, seek, inquire. Occurs in the plural beqarim in Amos 6:12 and 2 Chron. 4:3.

“For thus the master Yahweh has said, ‘Behold myself. And I have tread אֶת-my sheep, and I have ploughed [baqar] them.” Eze. 34:11 literal