The meaning of Cow; Kine in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

kou, kin (baqar (compare Arabic baqar, "cow"); 'eghlath baqar (Isaiah 7:21); parah (compare Arabic furar, "young of a sheep, goat, or cow"); paroth 'aloth (I Samuel 6:7, I Samuel 6:10), "milch kine," from 'ul , "to suckle"; 'eleph): In Amos 4:1, the term, "kine of Bashan," is applied to the voluptuous women of Samaria. In Gen. 41:1-36 is the narration of Pharaoh's dream of the seven fat and seven lean kine. In Isaiah's vision (Isaiah 11:7) we have: "And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together." Cows do not seem to have been sacrificed. The sacrifice of the kine that brought the ark back from the Philistines (I Samuel 6:14) was due to the exceptional circumstances.

See CALF; CATTLE.

Alfred Ely Day

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