Ox (cattle)
CLEAN
Parts the hoof and chews the cud (Lev 11:3)
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 330 verses (KJV)
Meat
Description
Oxen were draft animals first and food second, used for plowing and threshing long before they ever reached a table, which made the fatted calf a special-occasion meal rather than everyday fare. The prodigal son’s father ordered one killed to mark his lost son’s return.
Key verses
“Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.”
Leviticus 11:3
“And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:”
Luke 15:23
Fun fact
Israelite law forbade muzzling an ox while it threshed grain, so it could eat as it worked — a rule Paul later cited to argue that those who labor deserve support (Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Corinthians 9:9).
All 330 referencesshow
- 1 Chronicles 12:40
- 1 Chronicles 13:9
- 1 Chronicles 15:26
- 1 Chronicles 21:23
- 1 Chronicles 29:21
- 1 Corinthians 9:9
- 1 Kings 1:9
- 1 Kings 1:19
- 1 Kings 1:25
- 1 Kings 4:23
- 1 Kings 7:25
- 1 Kings 7:29
- 1 Kings 7:44
- 1 Kings 8:5
- 1 Kings 8:63
- 1 Kings 18:23
- 1 Kings 18:25
- 1 Kings 18:26
- 1 Kings 18:33
- 1 Kings 19:19
- 1 Kings 19:20
- 1 Kings 19:21
- 1 Samuel 1:24
- 1 Samuel 1:25
- 1 Samuel 6:7
- 1 Samuel 6:10
- 1 Samuel 6:12
- 1 Samuel 6:14
- 1 Samuel 11:7
- 1 Samuel 12:3
- 1 Samuel 14:14
- 1 Samuel 14:32
- 1 Samuel 14:34
- 1 Samuel 15:3
- 1 Samuel 15:9
- 1 Samuel 15:14
- 1 Samuel 15:15
- 1 Samuel 15:21
- 1 Samuel 22:19
- 1 Samuel 27:9
- 1 Samuel 28:24
- 1 Timothy 5:18
- 2 Chronicles 4:3
- 2 Chronicles 4:4
- 2 Chronicles 4:15
- 2 Chronicles 5:6
- 2 Chronicles 7:5
- 2 Chronicles 13:9
- 2 Chronicles 15:11
- 2 Chronicles 18:2
- 2 Chronicles 29:21
- 2 Chronicles 29:22
- 2 Chronicles 29:32
- 2 Chronicles 29:33
- 2 Chronicles 30:24
- 2 Chronicles 31:6
- 2 Chronicles 35:7
- 2 Chronicles 35:8
- 2 Chronicles 35:9
- 2 Chronicles 35:12
- 2 Kings 5:26
- 2 Kings 16:17
- 2 Samuel 6:6
- 2 Samuel 6:13
- 2 Samuel 17:29
- 2 Samuel 24:22
- 2 Samuel 24:24
- Acts 7:41
- Acts 14:13
- Amos 4:1
- Amos 6:12
- Daniel 4:25
- Daniel 4:32
- Daniel 4:33
- Daniel 5:21
- Deuteronomy 5:14
- Deuteronomy 5:21
- Deuteronomy 7:13
- Deuteronomy 9:16
- Deuteronomy 9:21
- Deuteronomy 14:4
- Deuteronomy 14:5
- Deuteronomy 14:26
- Deuteronomy 15:19
- Deuteronomy 17:1
- Deuteronomy 18:3
- Deuteronomy 22:1
- Deuteronomy 22:4
- Deuteronomy 22:10
- Deuteronomy 25:4
- Deuteronomy 28:4
- Deuteronomy 28:18
- Deuteronomy 28:31
- Deuteronomy 28:51
- Deuteronomy 32:14
- Deuteronomy 33:17
- Exodus 9:3
- Exodus 20:17
- Exodus 20:24
- Exodus 21:28
- Exodus 21:29
- Exodus 21:32
- Exodus 21:33
- Exodus 21:35
- Exodus 21:36
- Exodus 22:1
- Exodus 22:4
- Exodus 22:9
- Exodus 22:10
- Exodus 22:30
- Exodus 23:4
- Exodus 23:12
- Exodus 24:5
- Exodus 29:1
- Exodus 29:3
- Exodus 29:10
- Exodus 29:11
- Exodus 29:12
- Exodus 29:14
- Exodus 29:36
- Exodus 32:4
- Exodus 32:8
- Exodus 32:19
- Exodus 32:20
- Exodus 32:24
- Exodus 32:35
- Exodus 34:19
- Ezekiel 1:7
- Ezekiel 1:10
- Ezekiel 39:18
- Ezekiel 43:19
- Ezekiel 43:21
- Ezekiel 43:22
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- Ezekiel 43:25
- Ezekiel 45:18
- Ezekiel 45:22
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- Ezekiel 45:24
- Ezekiel 46:6
- Ezekiel 46:7
- Ezekiel 46:11
- Ezra 6:9
- Ezra 6:17
- Ezra 7:17
- Ezra 8:35
- Genesis 12:16
- Genesis 18:7
- Genesis 18:8
- Genesis 20:14
- Genesis 21:27
- Genesis 32:5
- Genesis 32:15
- Genesis 34:28
- Genesis 41:2
- Genesis 41:3
- Genesis 41:4
- Genesis 41:18
- Genesis 41:19
- Genesis 41:20
- Genesis 41:26
- Genesis 41:27
- Hosea 8:5
- Hosea 8:6
- Hosea 12:11
- Isaiah 1:3
- Isaiah 1:11
- Isaiah 7:25
- Isaiah 11:6
- Isaiah 11:7
- Isaiah 22:13
- Isaiah 27:10
- Isaiah 30:24
- Isaiah 32:20
- Isaiah 34:7
- Isaiah 65:25
- Isaiah 66:3
- Jeremiah 11:19
- Jeremiah 31:18
- Jeremiah 34:18
- Jeremiah 34:19
- Jeremiah 46:21
- Jeremiah 50:27
- Jeremiah 51:23
- Job 1:3
- Job 1:14
- Job 6:5
- Job 21:10
- Job 24:3
- Job 40:15
- Job 42:8
- Job 42:12
- John 2:14
- John 2:15
- Joshua 6:21
- Joshua 7:24
- Judges 3:31
- Judges 6:4
- Judges 6:25
- Judges 6:26
- Judges 6:28
- Leviticus 1:5
- Leviticus 4:3
- Leviticus 4:4
- Leviticus 4:5
- Leviticus 4:7
- Leviticus 4:8
- Leviticus 4:10
- Leviticus 4:11
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- Leviticus 4:14
- Leviticus 4:15
- Leviticus 4:16
- Leviticus 4:20
- Leviticus 4:21
- Leviticus 7:23
- Leviticus 8:2
- Leviticus 8:14
- Leviticus 8:17
- Leviticus 9:2
- Leviticus 9:3
- Leviticus 9:4
- Leviticus 9:8
- Leviticus 9:18
- Leviticus 9:19
- Leviticus 16:3
- Leviticus 16:6
- Leviticus 16:11
- Leviticus 16:14
- Leviticus 16:15
- Leviticus 16:18
- Leviticus 16:27
- Leviticus 17:3
- Leviticus 22:23
- Leviticus 22:27
- Leviticus 23:18
- Leviticus 27:26
- Luke 13:15
- Luke 14:5
- Luke 14:19
- Luke 15:23
- Luke 15:27
- Luke 15:30
- Matthew 22:4
- Nehemiah 5:18
- Nehemiah 9:18
- Numbers 7:3
- Numbers 7:6
- Numbers 7:7
- Numbers 7:8
- Numbers 7:15
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- Numbers 8:8
- Numbers 8:12
- Numbers 15:8
- Numbers 15:9
- Numbers 15:11
- Numbers 15:24
- Numbers 22:4
- Numbers 22:40
- Numbers 23:1
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- Numbers 28:11
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- Numbers 28:27
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- Numbers 29:2
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- Numbers 29:23
- Numbers 29:24
- Numbers 29:26
- Numbers 29:27
- Numbers 29:29
- Numbers 29:30
- Numbers 29:32
- Numbers 29:33
- Numbers 29:36
- Numbers 29:37
- Proverbs 7:22
- Proverbs 14:4
- Proverbs 15:17
- Psalms 8:7
- Psalms 29:6
- Psalms 50:9
- Psalms 51:19
- Psalms 66:15
- Psalms 69:31
- Psalms 106:19
- Psalms 106:20
- Psalms 144:14
- Revelation 4:7