ba.qar denotes bovine herd animals, whether kept as property, used for work, or supplied for offerings.

The term refers broadly to bovine animals as herds or stock: they are kept in fields and among possessions, used with threshing equipment, selected for sacrifice, and depicted beneath the large sea. The supplied verses do not require separate lexical senses for these settings.

1. Bovine herd animals and stock · dominant

   The noun identifies bovine animals in varied concrete settings: in 1 Chronicles 27:29 the APB renders cattle pasturing in Sharon and in the Valley of Achor; in 1 Samuel 11:7 it renders a pair of oxen cut into pieces; and in 2 Chronicles 29:22 it renders animals slaughtered whose blood the priests sprinkle on the altar. It also names the twelve bovine figures beneath the sea in 1 Kings 7:44, showing the same animal designation in a crafted representation.

   1 Chronicles 27:291 Samuel 11:72 Chronicles 29:222 Samuel 24:221 Kings 7:44Deuteronomy 15:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the noun as “cattle,” “oxen,” “herd,” and “bulls,” according to the verse's larger scene. These English choices describe the clauses rather than establish separate meanings.