Lexical Summary eglah: a heifer Original Word: עֶגְלָהTransliteration: eglah Phonetic Spelling: (eg-law') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a heifer Meaning: a, calf, one nearly grown Strong's Concordance calf, cow, heifer Feminine of egel; a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. A heifer) -- calf, cow, heifer. see HEBREW egel Brown-Driver-Briggs H5697. eglah I. עֶגְלָה noun feminine heifer; — absolute ׳ע Genesis 15:9 +; construct עֶגְלַת Isaiah 7:21 +; suffix עֶגְלָתִי Judges 14:18; plural construct עֶגְלוֺת Hosea 10:5 (but see below); — heifer, Isaiah 7:21, used in ploughing Judges 14:18 (figurative), threshing Jeremiah 50:11 (׳ע דָשָׁא, in simile, see דּוּשׁ, read perhaps דָשָׁה), figurative of stateliness etc. 46:20; ׳ע מְלֻמָּדָה Hosea 10:11 a trained heifer (simile of Ephraim); used for sacrifice 1 Samuel 16:2 (בָּקָר עֶגְלַת); cut in two for ratifying covenant Genesis 15:9 (J; ׳ע מְשֻׁלֶּשֶׁת; compare עֵגֶל Jeremiah 34:18-19,); in cleansing city from blood-guiltiness Deuteronomy 21:3 (׳ע בָּקָר), 21:4; 21:4; 21:6; once of calves worshipped in Northern Israel Hosea 10:5 (where read probably עֵגֶל, so ᵐ5 We Now GASm, compare Che, see also the following suffixes masculine singular). עֶגְלַת proper name, of a location; — ׳ע שְׁלִשִׁיָּה (the) third, Eglath Isaiah 15:5 (ᵐ5 δάμαλις τριερής) Jeremiah 48:34 (ᵐ5 ἀγγελιαν Σαλασεια), near Zoar and southern border of Moab. |
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