עֶגְלָה
ʻeglâh · H5697 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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female calf, heifer
Female young of a cow; used as sacrifice
ExamplesGenesis 15:9 So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Deuteronomy 21:3 “And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the person killed, that is, that the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked and has not pulled in a yoke;
Deuteronomy 21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
How it’s used In 5 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
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- בָּקָרcattle, oxen 3
- יmy 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
5 occurrences in 7 groups
- אָהַבto love 1
- דּוּשׁto tread out 1
- לָמַדto teach, to learn 1
- מָשַׁךְto draw, to pull, to prolong 1
- עָבַדto serve, to work 1
- עָרַףto break the neck 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 3
- חָיָהto be alive, to become alive, to live 1
- יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
- עָרַףto break the neck 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִצְרַיִםEgypt 1
- אֶפְרַיִםEphraim 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- בin/on/with 2
- כlike/as 2
- לto/for 2
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 1 word
- δάμαλις dámalis · G1151 · heifer
- Greek δάμαλις specifically denotes a young female bovine (heifer), corresponding to one of the primary senses within Hebrew עֶגְלָה's semantic range (calf/heifer/cow), regularly employed in LXX to render ritual and agricultural contexts involving young cattle.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- עֶגְלָה denotes a young cow or heifer, a domestic animal, illustrated at Genesis 15:9 ("bring Me a three-year-old heifer") and Deuteronomy 21:3 ("a heifer of the herd that has not been worked"), used both in covenant ritual and in the atonement rite for an unsolved death.
- Names of People003001007
- This entry carries no independent personal-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the common noun for a heifer, as in “So he said, ‘Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat’” (Genesis 15:9). The “Names of People” domain is bundle-shared with the related personal name עֶגְלָה (ʻEglâh, H5698), which it is not independently attested as here.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5697. eglah I. עֶגְלָה noun feminine heifer; — absolute ׳ע Gen 15:9 +; construct עֶגְלַת…
I. עֶגְלָה noun feminine heifer; — absolute ׳ע Gen 15:9 +; construct עֶגְלַת Isa 7:21 +; suffix עֶגְלָתִי Jdg 14:18; plural construct עֶגְלוֺת Hos 10:5 (but see below); — heifer, Isa 7:21, used in ploughing Jdg 14:18 (figurative), threshing Jer 50:11 (׳ע דָשָׁא, in simile, see דּוּשׁ, read perhaps דָשָׁה), figurative of stateliness etc. Jer 46:20; ׳ע מְלֻמָּדָה Hos 10:11 a trained heifer (simile of Ephraim); used for sacrifice 1Sa 16:2 (בָּקָר עֶגְלַת); cut in two for ratifying covenant Gen 15:9 (J; ׳ע מְשֻׁלֶּשֶׁת; compare עֵגֶל Jer 34:18-19,); in cleansing city from blood-guiltiness Deu 21:3 (׳ע בָּקָר), Deu 21:4; Deu 21:4; Deu 21:6; once of calves worshipped in Northern Israel Hos 10:5 (where read probably עֵגֶל, so ᵐ5 We Now GASm, compare Che, see also the following suffixes masculine singular).
עֶגְלַת proper name, of a location; — ׳ע שְׁלִשִׁיָּה (the) third, Eglath Isa 15:5 (ᵐ5 δάμαλις τριερής) Jer 48:34 (ᵐ5 ἀγγελιαν Σαλασεια), near Zoar and southern border of Moab.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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