Kine
An old English plural of cow, still met in the Bible and in poetry.
Also: kye, ky
Kine is an old plural of cow, a double plural formed much as children is from child. It was the usual plural in English until about the seventeenth century and survives in the King James Bible, where Pharaoh dreams of seven fat kine and seven lean ones, and in hymns and poetry. In Scots and northern English dialects the forms kye and ky lived on in speech much longer. Today it is a literary or deliberately old-fashioned word, and it turns up in translations of older Indian and Irish texts on cattle, where translators reach for a word with some age to it.