עֵגֶל
ʻêgel · ay-ghel
a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer)
Lexicon
Derivation: from the same as H5696 (עָגֹל);
a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bullock, calf.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to carry, to lift up › authority, the one who leads
To see and know that works to carry, to lift up of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֵגֶל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
35 occurrences · 35 OT · 0 NT · 28 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- calf6 · 17%
- the calf6 · 17%
- calves4 · 11%
- this calf1 · 3%
- and a calf1 · 3%
- unto the calves1 · 3%
- and for the calves1 · 3%
- like a calf1 · 3%
- with the calves1 · 3%
- a calf1 · 3%
- and the calf1 · 3%
- there shall the calf1 · 3%
- as a bullock1 · 3%
- of the calf1 · 3%
- bullocks1 · 3%
- of a calf's1 · 3%
- thy calf1 · 3%
- but the calf1 · 3%
- the calves1 · 3%
- and the calves1 · 3%
- with calves1 · 3%
- as calves1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.