עֵגֶל
ʻêgel · H5695 · Hebrew · 35 occurrences
Thing
- Cattle, cow, ox, bullMammals432 verses
Meanings
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a male calf
The male young of a cow, used as a symbol for a deity and as a sacrifice, and associated with being willful and untrained
ExamplesExodus 32:4 Then he took the gold from their hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a cast metal calf; and they said, “This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 32:8 “They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a cast metal calf, and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said, ‘This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”
Exodus 32:19 And it came about, as soon as Moses approached the camp, that he saw the calf and the people dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
How it’s used In 10 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
12 occurrences in 7 groups
- זָהָבgold 3
- מַרְבֵּקstall 3
- מַסֵּכָהmolten image 2
- חַטָּאָהsin, sin offering 1
- עַםpeople 1
- שֹׁמְרוֹןSamaria 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
11 occurrences in 7 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 5
- שְׁנַיִםtwo 2
- דָּןDan 1
- זֶהthis 1
- כָּרַתto cut off, to make (a covenant) 1
- עָבַרto pass 1
Named alongside itApposition
7 occurrences in 3 groups
- בֵּןson 3
- מַסֵּכָהmolten image 3
- חַטָּאָהsin, sin offering 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- יָצָאto go out 1
- רָעָהto shepherd, to feed, to graze 1
What is done to itIt is the object
12 occurrences in 6 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 6
- לָקַחto take, to receive 2
- זָנַחto reject, to cast off 1
- נָשַׁקto kiss 1
- רָאָהto see 1
- שָׁחַטto slaughter 1
Second object ofSecond object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- יַחַדtogether 1
- אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1
- כֶםyou 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׂכִירhired worker 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
8 occurrences in 4 groups
- כlike/as 5
- לto/for 3
- כְּמוֹas, like 2
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בֶּתֶרpiece 1
- רֶגֶלfoot, leg 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- μόσχος móschos · G3448 · calf
- Greek μόσχος (móschos, G3448) functions as the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew עֵגֶל (ʻêgel, H5695), both denoting a young bovine (calf or young bull), with direct semantic correspondence across contexts including sacrificial animals, idolatrous golden calves, and pastoral imagery.
- δάμαλις dámalis · G1151 · heifer
- Greek δάμαλις specifically denotes a heifer (young female bovine), representing a more gender-and-age-specific subset of Hebrew עֵגֶל's broader semantic range covering calves/young cattle of either sex.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- A calf or young bullock, offered repeatedly in the sacrificial system and famously cast as the golden idol Israel worshiped at Sinai.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5695. egel עֵ֫גֶל noun masculineExo 32:24 calf (as rolling or circling about ? compare…
עֵ֫גֶל noun masculineExo 32:24 calf (as rolling or circling about ? compare כַּר from כָּרַר; Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician (Punic) עגל id. Lzb336; ענילו Palmyrene proper name id. Cook89; Aramaic , , עֲגַלְתָּא עִיגְלָא,, id.; Assyrian [agalu], plural agalê probably calves DlHWB 16 (compare against this JenKosmol.110, but see also JägerBAS ii. 2, 286); Arabic id.; Ethiopic image u%navailable, compare also HomNS 226); — ׳ע absolute Exo 32:19 +; construct 1Sa 28:24 +; suffix עֶגְלֵךְ Hos 8:5; plural עֲגָלִים Hos 13:2 +; construct עֶגְלֵי 1Ki 12:28 +; — calf Isa 11:6; Isa 27:10 in simile of leaping mountains Psa 29:6; in simile of foot-sole of cherubim Eze 1:7; ׳ע מַרְבֵּק i.e. a stall-fed (fatted) calf 1Sa 28:24, in simile Jer 46:21; Malachi 3:20, compare ׳ע מַרְבֵּק מִתּוֺךְ Amo 6:4; ׳ע לֻמָּ֑ד לֹא Jer 31:18 an untrained calf; עַמִּים עֶגְלֵי Psa 68:31 calves of peoples, i.e. peoples like calves, so most; perhaps read עמ ׳בַּעֲלֵי Matthes Che GunkSchöf. 66 f. compare Bae; calf as sacrifice victim Mic 6:6; Lev 9:2-3, Lev 9:8 (P); cut in two, in ratifying covenant Jer 34:18-19, (compare עֶגְלָה Gen 15:9); elsewhere image of calf: made at Horeb, ׳ע מַסֵּכָה Exo 32:4, Exo 32:8; Deu 9:16; Neh 9:18; ׳ע alone Exo 32:19-20, Exo 32:24, Exo 32:35; Deu 9:21; Psa 106:19; two set up by Jeroboam I in Northern Israel, 1Ki 12:28, 1Ki 12:32; 2Ki 10:29; 2Ki 17:16; 2Ch 11:15; 2Ch 13:8, compare Hos 8:5-6, (׳ע שֹׁמְרוֺן עגְלֵךְ,), Hos 13:2; also Hos 10:5 (see I. עֶגְלָה near the end).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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