Ox
A domesticated animal representing strength, service, and sacrifice in biblical symbolism. Oxen plowed fields (1 Kings 19:19), threshed grain (Deuteronomy 25:4), and were offered as sacrifices (1 Kings 8:63). Paul quoted the law about not muzzling the ox to argue that ministers deserve support (1 Corinthians 9:9). Proverbs 14:4 observes, 'Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but from the strength of an ox come abundant harvests.' An ox-like face appears among Ezekiel's four living creatures (Ezekiel 1:10) and Revelation's four living creatures (Revelation 4:7), traditionally representing service and sacrifice. Luke's Gospel, emphasizing Jesus' humanity and service, is symbolically associated with the ox.
Verses about Ox
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שמות 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his …
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שמות 21:28
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall b…
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שמות 21:29
But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath k…
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שמות 21:32
If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
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שמות 21:33
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
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שמות 21:35
And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
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שמות 21:36
Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall …
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שמות 22:1
If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
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שמות 22:4
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
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שמות 22:9
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be …
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שמות 22:10
If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
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שמות 23:4
If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
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שמות 23:12
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the …
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שמות 34:19
All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
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ויקרא 7:23
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
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ויקרא 17:3
What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,
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ויקרא 27:26
Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord’s firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the Lord’s.
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במדבר 7:3
And they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and th…
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במדבר 22:4
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. An…
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דברים 5:14
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, n…