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Lexicon :: Strong's H5697 - ʿeḡlâ

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עֶגְלָה
Transliteration
ʿeḡlâ
Pronunciation
eg-law'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1560b

Strong’s Definitions

עֶגְלָה ʻeglâh, eg-law'; feminine of H5695; a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer):—calf, cow, heifer.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's H5697 in the following manner: heifer (12x), cow (1x), calf (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's H5697 in the following manner: heifer (12x), cow (1x), calf (1x).
  1. heifer

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶגְלָה ʻeglâh, eg-law'; feminine of H5695; a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer):—calf, cow, heifer.
STRONGS H5697: Abbreviations
† I. עֶגְלָה noun feminine heifer; — absolute ע׳ Genesis 15:9 +; construct עֶגְלַת Isaiah 7:21 +; suffix עֶגְלָתִי Judges 14:18; plural construct עֶגְלוֺת Hosea 10:5 (but see below); — heifer, Isaiah 7:21, used in ploughing Judges 14:18 (figurative), threshing Jeremiah 50:11 (דָשָׁא ע׳, in simile, see דּוּשׁ, read perhaps דָשָׁה), figurative of stateliness etc. Jeremiah 46:20; מְלֻמָּדָה ע׳ Hosea 10:11 a trained heifer (simile of Ephraim); used for sacrifice 1 Samuel 16:2 (עֶגְלַת בָּקָר); cut in two for ratifying covenant Genesis 15:9 (J; מְשֻׁלֶּשֶׁת ע׳; compare עֵגֶל Jeremiah 34:18, 19); in cleansing city from blood-guiltiness Deuteronomy 21:3 (בָּקָר ע׳), Deuteronomy 21:4; Deuteronomy 21:4; Deuteronomy 21:6; once of calves worshipped in Northern Israel Hosea 10:5 (where read probably עֵגֶל, so Greek Version of the LXX We Now GASm, compare Che, see also the following suffixes masculine singular).

עֶגְלַת proper name, of a location; — שְׁלִשִׁיָּה ע׳ (the) third, Eglath Isaiah 15:5 (Greek Version of the LXX δάμαλις τριερής) Jeremiah 48:34 (Greek Version of the LXX ἀγγελιαν Σαλασεια), near Zoar and southern border of Moab.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:9; 15:9

Deuteronomy

21:3; 21:4; 21:4; 21:6

Judges

14:18; 14:18

1 Samuel

16:2

Isaiah

7:21; 7:21; 15:5

Jeremiah

34:18; 34:19; 46:20; 48:34; 50:11

Hosea

10:5; 10:5; 10:11

H5697

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5697 matches the Hebrew עֶגְלָה (ʿeḡlâ),
which occurs 14 times in 13 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - So God 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.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - “It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the dead man shall take a heifer of the herd, one which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a [river] valley with running water, which has not been plowed or planted, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - “All the elders of that city nearest to the dead man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - So the men of the city said to Samson on the seventh day before sundown,

“What is sweeter than honey?

What is stronger than a lion?”

And he said to them,

“If you had not plowed with [fn]my heifer,

You would not have solved my riddle.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - But Samuel said, “How can I go? When Saul hears about it, he will kill me.” And the LORD said, “Take a heifer from the herd with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:21 -

Now in that day [because of the poverty caused by the invaders] a man will keep alive only a young milk cow and two sheep;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:5 -

My heart cries out for Moab;

His fugitives are [fleeing] as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.

For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;

For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their destruction.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:20 -

“Egypt is a very pretty heifer,

But a horsefly (Babylonia) is coming [against her] out of the north!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34 -

“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolations.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:11 -

“Though you are glad, though you rejoice,

O you who plunder My heritage,

Though you are wanton and skip about like a heifer in the grass

And neigh like stallions,

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 -

The people of Samaria will fear and tremble

For the [idolatrous] calf of [fn]Beth-aven (House of Wickedness).

Indeed, its people will mourn over it

And its idolatrous priests will cry out and wail over it,

Over its glory, because the glory [of their calf god] has departed from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:11 -

Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to tread out the grain,

But I will come over her fair neck with a heavy yoke [for hard field work].

I will harness Ephraim;

Judah will plow and Jacob will harrow and rake for himself.

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