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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 - And he took the gold from their hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a molten [fn]calf; and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - “They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - And as soon as he approached the camp and he saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned; and he threw the tablets from his hands and smashed them at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - Then Moses took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it on the surface of the water and made the Israelites drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:24 - “I said to them, ‘Let whoever has gold [jewelry], take it off.’ So they gave it to me; then 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 - So the LORD struck the people with a plague, because of what they had done with the calf which Aaron had made [for them].

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:2 - and he said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, [each] without blemish, and offer both 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 as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both one year old, without blemish, as a burnt offering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:8 -

So Aaron approached the altar and killed the calf as the sin offering, which was designated for himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:16 - “And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God. You had made for yourselves a molten [fn]calf (idol). You had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21 - “I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it in the fire and thoroughly crushed it, grinding the metal thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:24 - The woman had a fattened calf in the house; she quickly killed it, and took flour, kneaded it and baked unleavened bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - So the king took counsel [and followed bad advice] and made two [fn]calves of gold. And he said to the people, “It is too much for you to go [all the way] up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - Jeroboam held a feast on the fifteenth day of the [fn]eighth month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - However, Jehu did not turn from the [idolatrous] sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, that is, [led them to worship] the golden calves which were at Bethel and Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; and they made an Asherah [idol] and worshiped all the [starry] host of heaven and served Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, for the satyrs (goat demons) and calves (idols) which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:8 -

“And now you intend to assert yourselves against the kingdom of the LORD which is in the hands of the sons of David, since you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves (idols) which Jeroboam made for you as gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:18 -

“Even when they had made for themselves

A [fn]calf of cast metal

And said, ‘This is your god

Who brought you up from Egypt,’

And committed great [and contemptible] blasphemies,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:6 -

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,

And Sirion (Mount Hermon) like a young, wild ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 -

Rebuke the beasts [living] among the reeds [in Egypt],

The herd of bulls (the leaders) with the calves of the peoples;

Trampling underfoot the pieces of silver;

He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:19 -

They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai)

And worshiped a cast image.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6 -

And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,

And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,

And the calf and the young lion and the fatted steer together;

And a little child will lead them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 -

For the fortified city is isolated,

A settlement deserted and abandoned like the desert;

There the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and [fn]feed on its branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18 -

“I have surely heard Ephraim (Israel) moaning and grieving,

‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,

Like a bull unaccustomed to the yoke or an untrained calf;

Bring me back that I may be restored,

For You are the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:18 - ‘The men who have violated My covenant, who have not kept the terms of the solemn pledge which they made before Me when they split the [sacrificial] calf in half, and then afterwards walked between its separated pieces [sealing their pledge to Me by placing a curse on themselves should they violate the covenant—those men I will make like the calf]!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:19 - ‘The princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the high officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 -

“Also her mercenaries in her army

Are like fattened calves,

For they too have turned back and have fled together;

They did not stand [their ground],

Because the day of their disaster has come upon them,

The time of their punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:7 - Their legs were straight and the soles of their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they sparkled and gleamed like shiny bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:5 -

He has rejected your [pagan] calf, O Samaria, saying,

“My wrath burns against them.”

How long will they be incapable of innocence?

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:6 -

For even this [loathsome calf] is from Israel.

A craftsman made it, so it is not God;

Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces and go up in flames.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:2 -

And now they sin more and more,

And make for themselves molten images,

Idols skillfully made from their silver [as it pleased them],

All of them the work of the craftsmen.

They say of these [very works of their hands], “Let those who sacrifice kiss and show respect to the calves [as if they were living gods]!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 -

Those who lie on [luxurious] beds of ivory

And lounge around out on their couches,

And eat lambs from the flock

And calves from the midst of the stall,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:6 -

With what shall I come before the LORD [to honor Him]

And bow myself before God on high?

Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,

With yearling calves?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2 - “But for you who fear My name [with awe-filled reverence] the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go forward and leap [joyfully] like calves [released] from the stall.
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