βόες (boes)

βόες is an Ancient Greek form of βοῦς, meaning “ox, cow; (pl.) cattle”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 108 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.686: αὐτόματοι βόες ὔμμιν ἐνιζευχθέντες ἀρούραις

New Testament, Matthew 1.5: Σαλμὼν δὲ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Βοὲς ἐκ τῆς Ῥαχάβ, Βοὲς δὲ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ἰωβὴδ ἐκ τῆς Ῥούθ, Ἰωβὴδ δὲ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ἰεσσαί,

Aesop, Fables 79: Βόες ἅμαξαν εἷλκον· τοῦ δὲ ἄξονος τρίζοντος, ἐπιστραφέντες ἔφασαν οὕτως πρὸς αὐτόν· “ὦ οὗτος, ἡμῶν τὸ ὅλον βάρος φερόντων, σὺ τί κράζεις;“ Οὕτω καὶ ἔνιοι ἑτέρων μοχθούντων αὐτοὶ προσποιοῦνται κάμνειν.

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.