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kou, kı̄n (בּקר, baÌ„kÌ£aÌ„r (compare Arabic bakÌ£ar, “cowâ€); עגלת בּקר, ‛eghlath baÌ„kÌ£aÌ„r (); פרה, paÌ„raÌ„h (compare Arabic furaÌ„r, “young of a sheep, goat, or cowâ€); פרות עלות, paÌ„roÌ„th ‛aÌ„loÌ„th (, ), “milch kine,†from עוּל, ‛uÌ„l , “to suckleâ€; ×לף, 'eleph): In , the term, “kine of Bashan,†is applied to the voluptuous women of Samaria. In Gen 41:1-36 is the narration of Pharaoh's dream of the seven fat and seven lean kine. In Isaiah's vision () we have: “And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together.†Cows do not seem to have been sacrificed. The sacrifice of the kine that brought the ark back from the Philistines () was due to the exceptional circumstances. See CALF; CATTLE.