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Lexicon :: Strong's H5695 - ʿēḡel

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עֵגֶל
Transliteration
ʿēḡel
Pronunciation
ay-ghel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as עָגֹל (H5696)
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TWOT Reference: 1560a

Strong’s Definitions

עֵגֶל ʻêgel, ay-ghel; from the same as H5696; a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer):—bullock, calf.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 35x

The KJV translates Strong's H5695 in the following manner: calf (33x), bullock (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 35x
The KJV translates Strong's H5695 in the following manner: calf (33x), bullock (2x).

  1. calf, bull-calf

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵגֶל ʻêgel, ay-ghel; from the same as H5696; a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer):—bullock, calf.
STRONGS H5695: Abbreviations
† עֵ֫גֶל noun masculineExodus 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 Hgei, aXtlfgi, עִיגְלָא, עֲגַלְתָּא, id.; Assyrian [agalu], plural agalê probably calves DlHWB 16 (compare against this JenKosmol. 110, but see also JägerBAS ii. 2, 286); Arabic ءِجْلً id.; Ethiopic እጒል፡ እጐልት፡, compare also HomNS 226); — ע׳ absolute Exodus 32:19 +; construct 1 Samuel 28:24 +; suffix עֶגְלֵךְ Hosea 8:5; plural עֲגָלִים Hosea 13:2 +; construct עֶגְלֵי 1 Kings 12:28 +; — calf Isaiah 11:6; Isaiah 27:10 in simile of leaping mountains Psalm 29:6; in simile of foot-sole of cherubim Ezekiel 1:7; מַרְבֵּק ע׳ i.e. a stall-fed (fatted) calf 1 Samuel 28:24, in simile Jeremiah 46:21; Malachi 3:20 [Malachi 4:2], compare מִתּוֺךְ מַרְבֵּק ע׳ Amos 6:4; לֹא לֻמָּ֑ד ע׳ Jeremiah 31:18 an untrained calf; עֶגְלֵי עַמִּים Psalm 68:31 calves of peoples, i.e. peoples like calves, so most; perhaps read בַּעֲלֵי עמ׳ Matthes Che GunkSchöf. 66 f. compare Bae; calf as sacrifice victim Micah 6:6; Leviticus 9:2, 3, 8 (P); cut in two, in ratifying covenant Jeremiah 34:18, 19 (compare עֶגְלָה Genesis 15:9); elsewhere image of calf: made at Horeb, מַסֵּכָה ע׳ Exodus 32:4, 8; Deuteronomy 9:16; Nehemiah 9:18; ע׳ alone Exodus 32:19, 20, 24, 35; Deuteronomy 9:21; Psalm 106:19; two set up by Jeroboam I in Northern Israel, 1 Kings 12:28, 32; 2 Kings 10:29; 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Chronicles 11:15; 13:8, compare Hosea 8:5, 6 (עגְלֵךְ, שֹׁמְרוֺן ע׳), Hosea 13:2; also Hosea 10:5 (see I. עֶגְלָה near the end).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:9

Exodus

32:4; 32:8; 32:19; 32:19; 32:20; 32:24; 32:24; 32:35

Leviticus

9:2; 9:3; 9:8

Deuteronomy

9:16; 9:21

1 Samuel

28:24; 28:24

1 Kings

12:28; 12:28; 12:32

2 Kings

10:29; 17:16

2 Chronicles

11:15; 13:8

Nehemiah

9:18

Psalms

29:6; 68:31; 106:19

Isaiah

11:6; 27:10

Jeremiah

31:18; 34:18; 34:19; 46:21

Ezekiel

1:7

Hosea

8:5; 8:5; 8:6; 10:5; 13:2; 13:2

Amos

6:4

Micah

6:6

Malachi

4:2

H5695

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5695 matches the Hebrew עֵגֶל (ʿēḡel),
which occurs 35 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[fn] Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:24 - So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:35 - And the LORD struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:2 - He said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf for your sin offering[fn] and a ram for your burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:3 - Then say to the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without defect—for a burnt offering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:8 - So Aaron came to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:16 - When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21 - Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:24 - The woman had a fattened calf at the house, which she butchered at once. She took some flour, kneaded it and baked bread without yeast.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - However, he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - They forsook all the commands of the LORD their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - when he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:8 - “And now you plan to resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made to be your gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:18 - even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:6 - He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion[fn] like a young wild ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:19 - At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6 - The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling[fn] together; and a little child will lead them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18 - “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:18 - Those who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:19 - The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - The mercenaries in her ranks are like fattened calves. They too will turn and flee together, they will not stand their ground, for the day of disaster is coming upon them, the time for them to be punished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:7 - Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:5 - Samaria, throw out your calf-idol! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:6 - They are from Israel! This calf—a metalworker has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:2 - Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, “They offer human sacrifices! They kiss[fn] calf-idols!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 - You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:6 - With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2 - But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
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