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בקר שנים. גם הם פרים זכרים וטעמו מין הבקר והעד וכל בקר זבח השלמים עשרים וארבעה פרים: TWO OXEN. These were also male bullocks.34They were of the same sex and kind as the young bullock. The meaning of bakar (oxen) is, from the kind of cattle.35Thus bakar shenayim (two oxen) literally means two of the kind of cattle, the reference being to two bulls. And all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace-offerings twenty and four bullocks (v. 88) is proof of this.36That bakar refers to bullocks.