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βοῦν (boun)

βοῦν is an Ancient Greek form of βοῦς, meaning “ox, cow; (pl.) cattle”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 190 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1217: βοῦν ἀρότην ἤνωγε παρασχέμεν οὐκ ἐθέλοντα.

New Testament, 1 Timothy 5.18: λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφή Βοῦν ἀλοῶντα οὐ φιμώσεις· καὶ Ἄξιος ὁ ἐργάτης τοῦ μισθοῦ αὐτοῦ.

All forms of βοῦς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.