BEEVES (bevz), (Heb. haw kawr'; in Ara bic, ,zbbakar), cattle, herds, applicable to all Ru minantia, the camels alone excepted; but more par ticularly to the Bovid:e and the genera of the larger antelopes.
Ox or beeve, aluth, the most important of all clean beasts (I's. viii:7; ler. xi:to). Bull, shoe,- Chaldee, taste; Arabic, al-lane; Latin, tau nts; Celtic, tor. Young bull, Belgic, veir (Job xxi:to; I Sam. vi:7, to; Ps. lxix:31). Heifer. pharah. Calf, /trel; Arabic, id;/; but thee, a I t hou h the hunched ox occurs on Egyptian monu ments, we take to refer to an oryx, as well as HeAer-el-wash, unless it be the Antilope defassa of ilkinson, a species not yet scientifically de scribed.
Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, etc. (Lev. xxii.191. Beeves is the genuine plural of beef, and means the living animals. We tind the same term in the form beefs in Shakespeare: "As flesh of mut ton, beefs or goats."
BEFORE (be-fOr'). In the Scripture this word Before (be-fOr'). In the Scripture this word is used both as a preposition and an adverb. It applies both to place and time, and intimates preference.
1. Place. In view, free to one's choice (Gen. XX :ID. As in a posture of humiliation ( Rev. in:9). In sight or presence of (Got.
In advance of (Josh. viii:to).
2. Time. Previously; sooner than (Is. xliii.13; Julio X:8).
3. Preference. Rather than (2 Sam. vi:21; John i Is, 27).
4. In one solitary passage, owing to the posi tion of Canaan, relative to Syria, it signifies "on the east," as behind implies the west (Is. ix:12).
To be "before" God is to enjoy his favor, and the smiles of his providence ( Ps. xxxi :22).
BEG (64), the translation of /kb. baw kash', beseech (Ps. xxxvii:25); shaw-al cix.io; Prov. xx:4); Gr. brarha, et-ahee•teh'o, to ask for (Luke xvi:3); wpocrarriw, tros-ahee-teh'o (Mark x:46; Luke xviii:3s; John ix:8).