King James Version
Numbers 31:33 in the King James Version says “And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,”
Numbers 31:33 · KJV
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
And threescore and one thousand asses,
And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“beeves”
H1241a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
“thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
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