King James Version

Numbers 31:44

And thirty and six thousand beeves,

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וּבָקָ֕רuvaqarand herdבָּקָרconjunction, noun, common, both genders, singular, absolute — “and herd”, the ordinary formH1241beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herdbeeve, bull ([phrase] -ock), [phrase] calf, [phrase] cow, great (cattle), [phrase] heifer, herd, kine, ox.שִׁשָּׁ֥הshishahsixשֵׁשׁadjective, cardinal, masculine, singular, absolute — “six”, the ordinary formH8337six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixthsix(-teen, -teenth), sixth.וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖יםusheloshimand thirtyשְׁלוֹשִׁיםconjunction, adjective, cardinal, both genders, plural, absolute — “and thirty”, the ordinary formH7970thirty; or (ordinal) thirtieththirty, thirtieth. Compare H7991 (שָׁלִישׁ).אָֽלֶףalefthousandאֶלֶףadjective, cardinal, both genders, singular, absolute — “thousand”, the ordinary formH505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousandthousand.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

and thirty and six thousand beeves,

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American Standard Version (1901)

and thirty and six thousand oxen,

Young’s Literal Translation

and of the herd six and thirty thousand;

World English Bible

thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

Darby Translation

and thirty-six thousand oxen,

Douay-Rheims

And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

and thirty and six thousand beeves,

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And the oxen, thirty-six thousand;

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ βόες, ἓξ καὶ τριάκοντα χιλιάδες·