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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5795

עֵז

ezaze

goat

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

Concordance spelling: ʻêz

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5795is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 31
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5795

a she-goat (as strong), but masculine in plural (which also is used elliptically for goat's hair)

The King James renders it: (she) goat, kid.

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

ez is rendered "goat". It stands 74 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Twenty-five of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:9And 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.”
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-one different ways.

The first use

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.”

Genesis 15:9וְעֵ֥ז

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

Where the word stands

Twenty-five of the word's seventy-four uses are in Numbers.

The other 26 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

  • goats42
  • the goats7
  • a goat4
  • and goat hairs3
  • goat hairs3
  • the goat hairs3
  • among the goats2
  • and a goat2
  • the she-goats2
  • a female goat1
  • among the kids1
  • and among the goats1

and 3 more, 74 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.

עֵזֶרezerhelperUses21
עֵזezgoatUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 74, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

31 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

  • עִזִּ֥ים21
  • עִזִּ֖ים9
  • עִזִּ֔ים5
  • הָֽעִזִּ֔ים4
  • הָעִזִּ֖ים4
  • עִזִּים֙3
  • וְעִזִּֽים׃2
  • עֵ֖ז2
  • עִזִּֽים׃2
  • בָּעִזִּ֑ים1
  • בָּֽעִזִּ֗ים1
  • בָעִזִּֽים׃1

and 19 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural46HNcmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural13HTd/Ncmpa
  • noun · feminine singular5HNcfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural3HC/Ncmpa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural3HRd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Ncmpa

Genesis

eleven uses
  • 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.”

    Genesis 15:9

    • וְעֵ֥זveezconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a goat
  • Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.

    Genesis 27:9

    • עִזִּ֖יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

    Genesis 27:16

    • הָֽעִזִּ֔יםhaizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goats
  • Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.

    Genesis 30:32

    • בָּעִזִּ֑יםbaizimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the goats
  • So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”

    Genesis 30:33

    • בָּֽעִזִּ֗יםbaizimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the goats
  • That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.

    Genesis 30:35

    • הָֽעִזִּים֙haizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the female goats
  • I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.

    Genesis 31:38

    • וְעִזֶּ֖יךָveizeikhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and female goats your
  • 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,

    Genesis 32:14

    • עִזִּ֣יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: female goats
  • Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.

    Genesis 37:31

    • עִזִּ֔יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • “I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”

    Genesis 38:17

    • עִזִּ֖יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

    Genesis 38:20

    • הָֽעִזִּ֗יםhaizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goats

Exodus

seven uses
  • Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

    Exodus 12:5

    • הָעִזִּ֖יםhaizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goats
  • blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

    Exodus 25:4

    • וְעִזִּֽים׃veizimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and goat hairs
  • You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

    Exodus 26:7

    • עִזִּ֔יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goat hairs
  • blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

    Exodus 35:6

    • וְעִזִּֽים׃veizimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and goat hairs
  • Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.

    Exodus 35:23

    • וְעִזִּ֑יםveizimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and goat hairs
  • And all the skilled women whose hearts were stirred spun the goat hair.

    Exodus 35:26

    • הָעִזִּֽים׃haizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goat hairs
  • He then made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

    Exodus 36:14

    • עִזִּ֔יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goat hairs

Leviticus

twelve uses
  • If, however, one’s offering is a burnt offering from the flock—from the sheep or goats—he is to present an unblemished male.

    Leviticus 1:10

    • הָעִזִּ֖יםhaizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goats
  • If one’s offering is a goat, he is to present it before the LORD.

    Leviticus 3:12

    • עֵ֖זʾeznoun · feminine singulartagged: a goat
  • When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.

    Leviticus 4:23

    • עִזִּ֖יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for that sin.

    Leviticus 4:28

    • עִזִּים֙ʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.

    Leviticus 5:6

    • עִזִּ֖יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

    Leviticus 7:23

    • וָעֵ֖זvaezconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a goat
  • 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

    • עִזִּים֙ʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • And he shall take from the congregation of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

    Leviticus 16:5

    • עִזִּ֖יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • ‘Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp or outside of it

    Leviticus 17:3

    • עֵ֖זʾeznoun · feminine singulartagged: a goat
  • must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.

    Leviticus 22:19

    • וּבָֽעִזִּֽים׃uvaizimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and among the goats
  • “When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Leviticus 22:27

    • עֵז֙ʾeznoun · feminine singulartagged: a goat
  • You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.

    Leviticus 23:19

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats

Numbers

twenty-five uses
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:16

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:22

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:28

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:34

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:40

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:46

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:52

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:58

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:64

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:70

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:76

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • one male goat for a sin offering;

    Numbers 7:82

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • All the livestock for the burnt offering totaled twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve male lambs a year old—together with their grain offerings—and twelve male goats for the sin offering.

    Numbers 7:87

    • עִזִּ֛יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.

    Numbers 15:11

    • בָעִזִּֽים׃vaizimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the kids
  • and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.

    Numbers 15:24

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Also, if one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.

    Numbers 15:27

    • עֵ֥זʾeznoun · feminine singulartagged: a female goat
  • But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Numbers 18:17

    • עֵ֛זʾeznoun · feminine singulartagged: a goat
  • In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.

    Numbers 28:15

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Include one male goat to make atonement for you.

    Numbers 28:30

    • עִזִּ֖יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.

    Numbers 29:5

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Include one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings.

    Numbers 29:11

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.

    Numbers 29:16

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.

    Numbers 29:19

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.

    Numbers 29:25

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.”

    Numbers 31:20

    • עִזִּ֖יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goat hairs

Deuteronomy

one use
  • These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,

    Deuteronomy 14:4

    • עִזִּֽים׃ʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats

Judges

four uses
  • So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.

    Judges 6:19

    • עִזִּים֙ʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • “Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”

    Judges 13:15

    • עִזִּֽים׃ʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.

    Judges 13:19

    • הָעִזִּים֙haizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goats
  • Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

    Judges 15:1

    • עִזִּ֔יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats

1 Samuel

four uses
  • And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David.

    1 Samuel 16:20

    • עִזִּ֖יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

    1 Samuel 19:13

    • הָֽעִזִּ֔יםhaizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goat hairs
  • And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.

    1 Samuel 19:16

    • הָעִזִּ֖יםhaizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goat hairs
  • Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

    1 Samuel 25:2

    • עִזִּ֑יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats

1 Kings

one use
  • The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.

    1 Kings 20:27

    • עִזִּ֔יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.

    2 Chronicles 29:21

    • עִזִּ֤יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.

    2 Chronicles 35:7

    • עִזִּים֮ʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats

Proverbs

one use
  • You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.

    Proverbs 27:27

    • עִזִּ֗יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats

Song of Solomon

two uses
  • How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

    Song of Solomon 4:1

    • הָֽעִזִּ֔יםhaizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the she-goats
  • Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.

    Song of Solomon 6:5

    • הָֽעִזִּ֔יםhaizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the she-goats

Ezekiel

two uses
  • On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and the altar is to be cleansed as it was with the bull.

    Ezekiel 43:22

    • עִזִּ֥יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats
  • Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.

    Ezekiel 45:23

    • עִזִּ֖יםʾizimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: goats

Daniel

two uses
  • As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.

    Daniel 8:5

    • הָֽעִזִּים֙haizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goats
  • Thus the goat became very great, but at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off, and four prominent horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.

    Daniel 8:8

    • הָעִזִּ֖יםhaizimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the goats

The letters

Gematria 77

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.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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