H5695 עֵגֶל (ʻêgel) ay-ghel

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

calf

Strong's Definition

a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer)

Derivation: from the same as H5696 (עָגֹל);

KJV Usage: bullock, calf.

TWOT Reference: 1560a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) calf, bull-calf

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1151 G3448

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עֵ֫גֶל (e.gel) — calf. calf, bull-calf

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עֵגֶל (H5695)

noun m · עָגִיל · עָגֹל · עֲגָלָה · עֶגְלָה · עֵין עֶגְלַיִם

Domestic Animals | ≈ גְּדִי · כֶּבֶשׂ · מְרִיא · רְאֵם · שְׂעִיר־עִזִּים

male calf = male young of a cow; ► used as a symbol for a deity; also used as sacrifice; ≈ associated with being willful and untrained

EXO 32:4 · EXO 32:8 · EXO 32:19 · EXO 32:20 · EXO 32:24 · EXO 32:35 · LEV 9:2 · LEV 9:3 · LEV 9:8 · DEU 9:16 · DEU 9:21 · 1SA 28:24 · 1KI 12:28 · 1KI 12:32 · 2KI 10:29 · 2KI 17:16 · 2CH 11:15 · 2CH 13:8 · NEH 9:18 · PSA 29:6 · PSA 68:31 · PSA 106:19 · ISA 11:6 · ISA 27:10 · JER 31:18 · JER 34:18 · JER 34:19 · JER 46:21 · EZK 1:7 · HOS 8:5 · HOS 8:6 · HOS 13:2 · AMO 6:4 · MIC 6:6 · MAL 3:20

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עֵ֫גֶל n.m. calf (as rolling or circling about ?) base

Bible Occurrences (35)

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

9:2 9:3 9:8

9:16 9:21

28:24

12:28 12:32

10:29 17:16

11:15 13:8

9:18

29:6 68:30 106:19

11:6 27:10

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

1:7

8:5 8:6 13:2

6:4

6:6

4:2

Exodus 32:4

He took [the gold] from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

Exodus 32:8

How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 32:19

As [Moses] approached... the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

Exodus 32:20

Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground [it] to powder, and scattered [the powder] over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

Exodus 32:24

So I said to them, Whoever has gold, let him take it off, and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!

Exodus 32:35

And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.

Leviticus 9:2

He said to Aaron, Take for yourself a young bull...... for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.

Leviticus 9:3

Then speak to the Israelites... [and] say, Take a male goat... for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb — both a year old... [and] without blemish — for a burnt offering,