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title: עֲגָלָה — cart · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֲגָלָה (5699), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 25 times: cart. BDB 1906: n.f. cart. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֲגָלָה

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«עֲגָלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cart** — 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:** 25 times · **Key:** 5699 · **BDB:** עֲגָלָה

### Glosses

cart (9); carts (7); a.cart (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cart [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5699/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. cart [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5699/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cart (from rolling of wheels; NH id.; Ph. (Pu.) עגלת (?) Lzb336; Aramaic עֲגַלְתָּא, ܥܳܓܶܠܬܳܐ; Sem. loan-word in Egyptian āgartȧ Bondi38, ʿagolt ErmanEgyptian 491; cf. also WilkinsonAnc. Egypt. (1878), i. 223–241, especially 235, also 249 (illustr. vehicles drawn by cattle, cf. 1 S 6:7 Nu 7:3));—abs. ע׳ 1 S 6:7 +, sf. עֶגְלָתוֹ Is 28:28; pl. עֲגָלוֹת Gn 45:19 +; cstr. עֶגְלֹת Nu 7:3;—cart, used for transporting persons and things Gn 45:19, 21, 27; 46:5 (E), 1 S 6:7(×2), 8, 10, 11, 14(×2), 2 S 6:3(×2) = 1 Ch 13:7(×2); Nu 7:3 (ע׳ צָב covered carts), v 3, 6, 7, 8 (P); in sim. Am 2:13, עֲבוֹת הַע׳ Is 5:18 cart-rope, אוֹפַן ע׳ 28:27 of (threshing-) wagon (cf. DrAm. p. 228), גִּלְגַּל ע׳ v 28 id.;—ע׳ = warchariots only ψ 46:10 (Du transport-wagons).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 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 (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֲגָלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5699/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 5:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.18/)

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ה֛וֹי מֹשְׁכֵ֥י הֶֽעָוֺ֖ן בְּחַבְלֵ֣י הַשָּׁ֑וְא וְכַעֲב֥וֹת הָעֲגָלָ֖ה חַטָּאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* woe.to! \[those.who\].draw.along (of \[the\].iniquity with.(the) cords of.(the) emptiness and like the.rope of.(the) cart sin

*JPS 1917:* Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,

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[Amos 2:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.13/)

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הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י מֵעִ֖יק תַּחְתֵּיכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּעִיק֙ הָעֲגָלָ֔ה הַֽמְלֵאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ עָמִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* here! I \[am\].about.to.make.totter under you just as it.totters the cart (the) full (for itself cut.grain

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.

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