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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5695

עֵגֶל

egelay-ghel

calf

35 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻêgel

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5695is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 28
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5695

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

The King James renders it: bullock, calf.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

egel is rendered "calf". It stands 35 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 32:4He 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!”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-eight different ways.

The first use

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 32:4עֵ֣גֶל

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in sixteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 23 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the calf7
  • a calf of5
  • a calf4
  • calves of3
  • calves2
  • like calves of2
  • a male calf1
  • and a male calf1
  • and calf1
  • and calves1
  • and for the calves1
  • calf of1

and 6 more, 35 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 35, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

28 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • עֵ֣גֶל3
  • עֵ֖גֶל3
  • וְעֵ֨גֶל2
  • עֵ֥גֶל2
  • עֶגְלֵ֣י2
  • בְּעֶגְלֵ֬י1
  • בַּעֲגָלִ֖ים1
  • הָעֵ֖גֶל1
  • הָעֵ֨גֶל1
  • הָעֵ֥גֶל1
  • הָעֵ֔גֶל1
  • הָעֵ֗גֶל1

and 16 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)7HNcmsc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular7HTd/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmpc
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncmpc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Ncmpa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2fs
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa

Exodus

six uses
  • 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 32:4

    • עֵ֣גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a calf of
  • 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 32:8

    • עֵ֖גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a calf of
  • 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 32:19

    • הָעֵ֖גֶלhaegelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the calf
  • 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 32:20

    • הָעֵ֨גֶלhaegelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the calf
  • 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 32:24

    • הָעֵ֥גֶלhaegelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the calf
  • And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.

    Exodus 32:35

    • הָעֵ֔גֶלhaegelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the calf

Leviticus

three uses
  • 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 9:2

    • עֵ֣גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singulartagged: a male calf
  • 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,

    Leviticus 9:3

    • וְעֵ֨גֶלveegelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a male calf
  • So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.

    Leviticus 9:8

    • עֵ֥גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: male calf of

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

    Deuteronomy 9:16

    • עֵ֖גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a calf of
  • And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

    Deuteronomy 9:21

    • הָעֵ֗גֶלhaegelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the calf

1 Samuel

one use
  • The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

    1 Samuel 28:24

    • עֵֽגֶל־ʾegel-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a calf of

1 Kings

two uses
  • After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

    1 Kings 12:28

    • עֶגְלֵ֣יʾegleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: calves of
  • And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

    1 Kings 12:32

    • לָעֲגָלִ֣יםlaagalimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: to the calves

2 Kings

two uses
  • but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

    2 Kings 10:29

    • עֶגְלֵי֙ʾegleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: calves of
  • They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

    2 Kings 17:16

    • עֲגָלִ֑יםʾagalimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: calves

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

    2 Chronicles 11:15

    • וְלָעֲגָלִ֖יםvelaagalimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and for the calves
  • And now you think you can resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

    2 Chronicles 13:8

    • עֶגְלֵ֣יʾegleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: calves of

Nehemiah

one use
  • Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

    Nehemiah 9:18

    • עֵ֣גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a calf of

Psalms

three uses
  • He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.

    Psalms 29:6

    • עֵ֑גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singulartagged: a calf
  • Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

    Psalms 68:30

    • בְּעֶגְלֵ֬יbeegleipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with calves of
  • At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

    Psalms 106:19

    • עֵ֥גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singulartagged: a calf

Isaiah

two uses
  • The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.

    Isaiah 11:6

    • וְעֵ֨גֶלveegelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and calf
  • For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

    Isaiah 27:10

    • עֵ֛גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singulartagged: a calf

Jeremiah

four uses
  • I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

    Jeremiah 31:18

    • כְּעֵ֖גֶלkeegelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a calf
  • And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.

    Jeremiah 34:18

    • הָעֵ֙גֶל֙haegelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the calf
  • The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,

    Jeremiah 34:19

    • הָעֵֽגֶל׃haegelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the calf
  • Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time of their punishment.

    Jeremiah 46:21

    • כְּעֶגְלֵ֣יkeegleipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like calves of

Ezekiel

one use
  • Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, gleaming like polished bronze.

    Ezekiel 1:7

    • עֵ֔גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singulartagged: a calf

Hosea

three uses
  • He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

    Hosea 8:5

    • עֶגְלֵ֣ךְʾeglekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: calf your
  • For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

    Hosea 8:6

    • עֵ֖גֶלʾegelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: calf of
  • Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”

    Hosea 13:2

    • עֲגָלִ֖יםʾagalimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: calves

Amos

one use
  • You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

    Amos 6:4

    • וַעֲגָלִ֖יםvaagalimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and calves

Micah

one use
  • With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

    Micah 6:6

    • בַּעֲגָלִ֖יםbaagalimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with calves

Malachi

one use
  • “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

    Malachi 4:2

    • כְּעֶגְלֵ֥יkeegleipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like calves of

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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