BUL ( I eb. boo!), the eighth ecclesias tical month of the Jewish year (I Kings vi:38). It answers to October. (See TIME.) BULL (bul), (Heb. shore), with other kin dred terms has been already noticed in the article BEEVES.
1Ve may add tore, which occurs only in Ezra vi :9. 17; vii :17; Dan. iv :25, 32, 33; iv :22, 29, 30; in all which passages it seems to refer to bullocks, laboring or yoke oxen, and cattle wild or tame, taken collectively ; abirim, implying strength, and rendered 'bulls.' is found in Ps. xxii:12; 1:13; lxviii :30; Is. xxxiv :7, and Jer. xlvi :21; and agloth, aglim, are used when the animals are tin der three years of age. It is contended that the castration of no animal was practiced among the Hebrews. If that was the case other methods than those generally alluded to must have been adopted to break oxen to labor.
In Palestine the breed of cattle was most likely in ancient times, as it still is, inferior in size to the Egyptian; and provender must have been abundant indeed, if the number of beasts sacrificed at the great Jewish festivals, mentioned in Josephils, be correct, and could be sustained for a succession of years. The wild bulls of the dis
trict, mentioned in Ps. xxii :12. and in various other passages, appear, nevertheless, to refer to domestic species, probably left to propagate with out much human superintendence. Baal is said to have been worshiped in the lorm of a hull, and Moloch to have had a calf's or steer's head. (See BEEVES; CAI.F).
FiguratiVe. (t) Persons impatient in trou ble are like Todd hulls in a net; they roar and cry, but by their struggling entangle themselves more and more ( Is. li:20). (2) 1Vicked men, chiefly rulers or warriors, are called bulls and bulls of liashan, and calves, to denote their pros perity., strength, untractableness, and mischievous violence and fierceness ( Jer. xxxi :18; Ps. xxii: t2; 17:66 :30).