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Dictionary of Bible Themes

Cows, in OT times, often symbolised wealth and material well-being.

Job 21:10

Cows as evidence of prosperity

See also

Genesis 12:16; 24:35; 32:5,13-15; 41:1-4,17-21,25-27

Part of Job's complaint about the prosperity of the wicked.

2 Samuel 12:2
2 Chronicles 32:27-28
Psalms 50:10
Habakkuk 3:17-18

evidence of God's wealth

the believer's joy despite the absence of prosperity

1 Samuel 6:7-14

In the history of Israel

Isaiah 11:7

Cows in God's new earth

See also

Isaiah 30:23; 32:20
2 Samuel 17:29

Cows as a source of nourishment and fuel

Ezekiel 4:15
Exodus 22:30

Laws concerning cows

Leviticus 22:28
Job 18:3

Cows in metaphors

Of stupidity

Amos 4:1

See also

Of godless women

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