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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(bellow). A term used generically for ox, cattle (Psa. 22:1212Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. (Psalm 22:12)). Bullock (Isa. 65:2525The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. (Isaiah 65:25)); cow (Ezek. 4:1515Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. (Ezekiel 4:15)); oxen (Gen. 12:1616And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. (Genesis 12:16)). The “wild bull” (Isa. 51:2020Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God. (Isaiah 51:20)), and the “wild ox” (Deut. 14:55The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. (Deuteronomy 14:5)), mean probably the oryx.

Concise Bible Dictionary:

See Ox.