Lexical Summary egel: a calf Original Word: עֵגֶלTransliteration: egel Phonetic Spelling: (ay-ghel) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a calf Meaning: a, calf, one nearly grown Strong's Concordance bullock, calf From the same as agol; a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. A steer) -- bullock, calf. see HEBREW agol Brown-Driver-Briggs H5695. egel 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 , , עֲגַלְתָּא עִיגְלָא,, id.; Assyrian [agalu], plural agalê probably calves DlHWB 16 (compare against this JenKosmol.110, but see also JägerBAS ii. 2, 286); Arabic id.; Ethiopic image u%navailable, compare also HomNS 226); — ׳ע absolute 32:19 +; construct 1 Samuel 28:24 +; suffix עֶגְלֵךְ Hosea 8:5; plural עֲגָלִים 13:2 +; construct עֶגְלֵי 1 Kings 12:28 +; — calf Isaiah 11:6; 27:10 in simile of leaping mountains Psalm 29:6; in simile of foot-sole of cherubim Ezekiel 1:7; ׳ע מַרְבֵּק i.e. a stall-fed (fatted) calf 1 Samuel 28:24, in simile Jeremiah 46:21; Malachi 3:20, compare ׳ע מַרְבֵּק מִתּוֺךְ Amos 6:4; ׳ע לֻמָּ֑ד לֹא Jeremiah 31:18 an untrained calf; עַמִּים עֶגְלֵי Psalm 68:31 calves of peoples, i.e. peoples like calves, so most; perhaps read עמ ׳בַּעֲלֵי 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, ׳ע מַסֵּכָה 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; 17:16; 2 Chronicles 11:15; 13:8, compare Hosea 8:5-6, (׳ע שֹׁמְרוֺן עגְלֵךְ,), 13:2; also 10:5 (see I. עֶגְלָה near the end). |
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