cattle
e.leph denotes herd animals in agricultural and household settings, and in one clause names a clan.
The predominant usage concerns herd animals within blessings, curses, agricultural work, and household productivity; the construct singular in Judges 6:15 instead occurs in Gideon’s statement about his clan. Psalm 8:8 has a plural form in a creature list, though the APB translation does not make its individual contribution clear.
Senses in use
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Herd animals and their offspring · dominant
The plural construct forms occur with the offspring of a herd in Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 28:18, and Deuteronomy 28:51, where the APB renders the surrounding clauses with "the offspring of your cattle and the offspring of your flock." In Isaiah 30:24 and Proverbs 14:4, plural forms stand in agricultural settings: the APB mentions oxen and donkeys working the ground and a crib without cattle. Psalm 8:8 also has a plural form in a list of creatures, although the APB rendering does not isolate it.
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A clan within a larger people · rare
In Judges 6:15, the masculine singular construct form occurs in Gideon’s protest that his clan is the weakest in Manasseh; the APB renders the clause, "my clan is the weakest in Manasseh." This is a social-group use rather than the animal contexts found elsewhere.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the Deuteronomy verses, the APB presents the relevant clauses as "the offspring of your cattle and the offspring of your flock"; Proverbs 14:4 uses "cattle," while Judges 6:15 has "clan." Psalm 8:8 does not visibly represent the term in its supplied translation, so the English renderings cannot be read as a gloss of the term.