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title: עֶגְלָה — heifer · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֶגְלָה (5697), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: heifer. BDB 1906: n.f. heifer. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֶגְלָה

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«עֶגְלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **heifer** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 12 times · **Key:** 5697 · **BDB:** עֶגְלָה

### Glosses

a.heifer (5); heifer (4); \[is\].a.heifer (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

heifer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5697/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. heifer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5697/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. heifer;—abs. ע׳ Gn 15:9 +; cstr. עֶגְלַת Is 7:21 +; sf. עֶגְלָתִי Ju 14:18; pl. cstr. עֶגְלוֹת Ho 10:5 (but v. infr.);—heifer, Is 7:21, used in ploughing Ju 14:18 (fig.), threshing Je 50:11 (ע׳ דָשָׁא, in sim., v. דּוּשׁ, read perhaps דָשָׁה), fig. of stateliness etc. Je 46:20; ע׳ מְלֻמָּדָה Ho 10:11 a trained heifer (sim. of Ephr.); used for sacrif. 1 S 16:2 (עֶגְלַת בָּקָר); cut in two for ratifying covenant Gn 15:9 (J; ע׳ מְשֻׁלֶּשֶׁת; cf. עֵגֶל Je 34:18, 19); in cleansing city from blood-guiltiness Dt 21:3 (ע׳ בָּקָר), v 4(×2), 6; once of calves worshipped in N. Isr. Ho 10:5 (where read prob. עֵגֶל, so 𝔊 We Now GASm, cf. Che, v. also the foll. sfs. ms.).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֶגְלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5697/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 46:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.20/)

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עֶגְלָ֥ה יְפֵֽה־פִיָּ֖היְפֵֽה־פִיָּ֖ה מִצְרָ֑יִם קֶ֥רֶץ מִצָּפ֖וֹן בָּ֥א בָֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.heifer very beautiful Egypt a.gadfly from.\[the\] north \[is\].about.to.come \[is\].about.to.come

*JPS 1917:* Egypt is a very fair heifer; but the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.

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[Isaiah 7:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.21/)

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וְהָיָ֖ה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא יְחַיֶּה־אִ֛ישׁ עֶגְלַ֥ת בָּקָ֖ר וּשְׁתֵּי־צֹֽאן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be in the day (the) that he.will.preserve.alive a.person a.heifer of.\[the\].herd and two sheep

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a young cow, and two sheep;

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