עֶגְלָה
eg.lah
“heifer”
Definition
a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer)
feminine of H5695 (עֵגֶל);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
עֶגְלָה appears 13 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!”The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’
bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh;but I will place a yoke on her fair neck.I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow,and Jacob will break the hard ground.
On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.