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     * And under.
     # 1Ki 7:24-26; Eze 1:10; 10:14; 1Co 9:9,10; Re 4:7|
     * oxen.
       In the parallel passage of Kings, instead of {bekarim,}
       "oxen," we have {peka(8b6d),} "knops," in the form of colocynths.
       (See on 1; Ki 6:18, and 2; Ki 4:39;) which last is supposed by
       able critics to be the reading which ought to received be
       here; {bekarim,} "oxen," being a mistake for {peka(8b6d),}
       "knops."  Houbigant, however, contends that the words in both
       places are right; but that {bakar} does not signify an ox
       here, but a large kind of grape, according to its meaning in
       Arabic.  But Dr. A. Clarke states that {bakar,} or {bakarat,}
       has no such meaning in Arabic, though the phrase {aino
       'lbikri,} or "ox-eye," signifies a species of black grape,
       very large, and of incredible sweetness; that consequently the
       criticism of this great man is not solid; and that the
       likeliest method of reconciling the two places is to suppose a
       change in the letters as above.