עֵגֶל egel

Hebrew word for “calf” · Strong’s H5695 · used 35 times in 35 verses

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Meaning

calf, bull-calf

How it is translated

Glosses given for egel in context, with how often each is used:

• calf 19
• calves 10
• male calf 3
• like calves 2
• like a calf 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 32 (6), Leviticus 9 (3), Deuteronomy 9 (2), 1 Kings 12 (2), Jeremiah 34 (2), Hosea 8 (2), 1 Samuel 28 (1), 2 Kings 10 (1), 2 Kings 17 (1), 2 Chronicles 11 (1)

Forms

• עגל 12
• העגל 7
• עגלי 3
• ועגל 2
• עגלים 2
• כעגלי 2
• לעגלים 1
• ולעגלים 1
• בעגלי 1
• כעגל 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with egel more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַסֵּכָה massekhah “liquid” 7
• מַרְבֵּק marbeq “stall” 4
• הֶם hem “them” 7
• זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 4
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 6
• בֶּתֶר beter “part” 2
• חַטָּאת chattat “sin” 4
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 4
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 5
• יָרָבְעָם yarovam “Jeroboam” 3
• טָחַן tachan “to grind” 2
• שָׁלַךְ shalakh “to throw” 3

Key verses

The verses using egel that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 32:4 — And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which…
• 1 Kings 12:28 — Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel,…
• 2 Kings 10:29 — Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth-el,…
• 2 Kings 17:16 — And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of…
• Psalms 68:30 — Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou…
• Isaiah 11:6 — The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little…
• Isaiah 27:10 — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and…
• Jeremiah 31:18 — I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed turn thou me, and I shall be turned;…
• Jeremiah 46:21 — Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day…
• Hosea 13:2 — And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the…
• Micah 6:6 — Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
• Malachi 4:2 — But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.