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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 received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden[fn] calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:24 - So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, 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 - Then the LORD sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:2 - and he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:3 - And say to the people of Israel, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:8 - So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:16 - And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden[fn] 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 - Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. 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 - And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:8 - “And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:18 - Even when they had made for themselves a golden[fn] calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:6 - He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,
and Sirion like a young wild ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds,
the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.
Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute;
scatter the peoples who delight in war.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:19 - They made a calf in Horeb
and worshiped a metal image.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6 - The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
and a little child shall lead them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18 - I have heard Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like 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 - And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like[fn] the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:19 - the officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, 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 - Even her hired soldiers in her midst
are like fattened calves;
yes, they have turned and fled together;
they did not stand,
for the day of their calamity 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 the sole of a calf’s foot. And they sparkled like burnished bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:5 - I have[fn] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
My anger 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 it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
The calf of Samaria
shall be broken to pieces.[fn]

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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 metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
“Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:4 - “Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory
and stretch themselves 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,
and bow myself before God on high?
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 fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
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