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עֲגָלָה

ʻăgâlâh · H5699 · Hebrew · 25 occurrences

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A word for 3 things

Meanings

  1. cart, wagon, chariot

    Two or four-wheeled carriage or cart, used for travel or the transport of loads; pulled by draft animals, such as oxen, donkeys, or horses

    Examples

    Genesis 45:19 “Now you are ordered, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come.

    Genesis 45:21 Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

    Genesis 45:27 When they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of their father Jacob revived.

  2. A cart wheel primarily used for separating the grain from the straw (cart wheel (for threshing))

    Examples

    Isaiah 28:28 Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it, He does not thresh it longer.

  3. a shield or buckler

    A flat, usually round object made of wood or metal, used in battle, held by a warrior in front of him as protection from the weapons of his opponent, and relatively small and easy to maneuver

    Examples

    Psalm 46:9 He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariots with fire.

How it’s used In 7 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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

10 occurrences in 7 groups

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 6 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 3 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 4 groups

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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Near synonyms 2 words
רֶכֶב rekeb · H7393 · upper millstone, chariot
Both words denote wheeled transport vehicles with overlapping sense (chariot, wagon), two distinct Hebrew words for similar conveyances.
מֶרְכָּבָה merkâbâh · H4818 · chariot
Both words denote wheeled conveyances: מֶרְכָּבָה (merkâbâh, H4818) is "chariot," and עֲגָלָה (ʻăgâlâh, H5699) "cart, chariot, wagon." They are distinct Hebrew words that can refer to similar objects and substitute in certain contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Vehicles001003001001019
A cart or wagon, as when Pharaoh sends wagons to carry Jacob and his household down to Egypt, and as when the tribal leaders bring covered carts as offerings for transporting the tabernacle.
Weapons001003001001020
A broader attested sense of a war chariot, not directly shown by the citations sampled here.
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עָגֹל ʻâgôl · H5696 · round · 6×עֵגֶל ʻêgel · H5695 · male calf · 35×עֲגָלָהʻăgâlâh · H5699מַעְגָּל maʻgâl · H4570 · track, path · 16×עֶגְלָה ʻeglâh · H5697 · female calf, heifer · 14×מוּצָק mûwtsâq · H4165 · distress, to cast, to melt · 3×עָגִיל ʻâgîyl · H5694 · earring · 2×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5699. agalah עֲגָלָה noun feminine cart (from rolling of wheels; Late Hebrew id.;…
H5699. agalah
עֲגָלָה noun feminine cart (from rolling of wheels; Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician (Punic) עגלת (?) Lzb336; Aramaic עֲגַלְתָּא, ; Semitic loan-word in Egyptian ¹garθa Bondi38, ±agolt ErmanEgypt, 491; compare also WilkinsonAnc.Egypt.(1878),i.223-241, especially 235, also 249 (illustrated vehicles drawn by cattle, compare 1Sa 6:7; Num 7:3)); — absolute ׳ע 1Sa 6:7 +, suffix עֶגְלָתוֺ Isa 28:28; plural עֲגָלוֺת Gen 45:19 +; construct עֶגְלֹת Num 7:3; — cart, used for transporting persons and things Gen 45:19, Gen 45:21, Gen 45:27; Gen 46:5 (E), 1Sa 6:7 (twice in verse); 1Sa 6:8, 1Sa 6:10, 1Sa 6:11, 1Sa 6:14 (twice in verse), 2Sa 6:3 (twice in verse) = 1Ch 13:7 (twice in verse); Num 7:3 (׳ע צָב covered carts), Num 7:3; Num 7:6; Num 7:7; Num 7:8 (P); in simile Amo 2:13, ׳הַע עֲבוֺת Isa 5:18 cart-rope, ע ׳אוֺפַן Isa 28:27 of (threshing-) wagon (compare DrAmos. p. 228), ע ׳גִּלְגַּל Isa 28:28 id.; — ׳ע = war-chariots only Psa 46:10 (Du transport-wagons).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Vehicles25 occurrencesWeapons1 occurrence

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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