TBESH · H5697A
עֶגְלָה · eg.lah · heifer
heifer
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eg.lah H5697
עֶגְלָה (eg.lah) means “heifer” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
עֶגְלָה Hebrew · H5697 14 tagged occurrences in 13 verses
Pronunciation guide: eg-law' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H5697B
עֶגְלַת · eg.lat · Eglath-shelishiyah
§ Eglath = "heifer" A place near Zoar and south of Moab
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
feminine of H5695 (עֵגֶל); a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer)
KJV glosses: calf, cow, heifer.
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How translators render H5697
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| a heifer | 2 |
| heifer | 2 |
| the heifer | 2 |
| a young cow | 1 |
| and break its | 1 |
| and eglath-shelishiyah | 1 |
| as far as eglath-shelishiyah | 1 |
| for the calf | 1 |
| like a heifer | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| with my heifer | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| an heifer | 5 |
| as the heifer | 1 |
| because of the calves | 1 |
| cow | 1 |
| heifer | 1 |
| me an heifer | 1 |
| over the heifer | 1 |
| the heifer | 1 |
| the heifers | 1 |
| with my heifer | 1 |
Verses containing H5697
Page 1 of 1. 13 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 15:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 21:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 21:4
· BSB · 2 occurrences
bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 21:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
Read word by word - Judges 14:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
Read word by word - Isaiah 15:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 46:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 48:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 50:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,
Read word by word - Hosea 10:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.
Read word by word - Hosea 10:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.
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