Lexical Definition

‎עֵגֶל‎ ʻêgel (ay-ghel) calf ^H:N-M
from the same as ‎עָגֹל‎

bullock, calf.

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

1) calf, bull-calf

See Greek: δάμαλις · μόσχος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎עֵ֫גֶל‎ noun masculine^{Exod 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 , , ‎עִיגְלָא‎, ‎עֲגַלְתָּא‎, id.; Assyrian [agalu], plural agalê probably calves Dl^{HWB 16} (compare against this Jen^Kosmol.110, but see also Jäger^{BAS ii. 2, 286}); Arabic id.; Ethiopic , compare also Hom^{NS 226}); — ‎׳‎‎ע‎ absolute Exod 32:19 +; construct 1Sam 28:24 +; suffix ‎עֶגְלֵךְ‎ Hos 8:5 plural ‎עֲגָלִים‎ Hos 13:2 +; construct ‎עֶגְלֵי‎ 1Kgs 12:28 +; — calf Isa 11:6; Isa 27:10 in simile of leaping mountains Ps 29:6 in simile of foot-sole of cherubim Ezek 1:7 ‎מַרְבֵּק‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ i.e. a stall-fed (fatted) calf 1Sam 28:24, in simile Jer 46:21; Mal 3:20*, compare ‎מִתּוֺךְ מַרְבֵּק‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Amos 6:4 ‎לֹא לֻמָּ֑ד‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Jer 31:18 an untrained calf; ‎עֶגְלֵי עַמִּים‎ Ps 68:31* calves of peoples, i.e. peoples like calves, so most; perhaps read ‎׳‎‎בַּעֲלֵי עמ‎ Matthes Che Gunk^{Schöf. 66 f.} compare Bae; calf as sacrifice victim Mic 6:6; Lev 9:2; Lev 9:3; Lev 9:8 (P); cut in two, in ratifying covenant Jer 34:18; Jer 34:19 (compare ‎עֶגְלָה‎ Gen 15:9); elsewhere image of calf: made at Horeb, ‎מַסֵּכָה‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎ Exod 32:4; Exod 32:8; Deut 9:16; Neh 9:18 ‎׳‎‎ע‎ alone Exod 32:19; Exod 32:20; Exod 32:24; Exod 32:35; Deut 9:21; Ps 106:19 two set up by Jeroboam I in Northern Israel, 1Kgs 12:28; 1Kgs 12:32; 2Kgs 10:29; 2Kgs 17:16; 2Chr 11:15; 2Chr 13:8, compare Hos 8:5; Hos 8:6 (‎עגְלֵךְ‎, ‎שֹׁמְרוֺן‎ ‎׳‎‎ע‎), Hos 13:2 also Hos 10:5 (see I. ‎עֶגְלָה‎ near the end).

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