עֵ֫גֶל noun masculine[Exod 32:24] calf (as rolling or circling about ? compare כַּר from כָּרַר; Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician (Punic) עגל id. Lzb336; ענילו Palmyrene proper name id. Cook89; Aramaic , , עִיגְלָא, עֲגַלְתָּא, id.; Assyrian [agalu], plural agalê probably calves DlHWB 16 (compare against this JenKosmol.110, but see also JägerBAS ii. 2, 286); Arabic id.; Ethiopic , compare also HomNS 226); — ׳ע absolute [Exod 32:19] +; construct [1Sam 28:24] +; suffix עֶגְלֵךְ [Hos 8:5] plural עֲגָלִים [Hos 13:2] +; construct עֶגְלֵי [1Kgs 12:28] +; — calf [Isa 11:6]; [Isa 27:10] in simile of leaping mountains [Ps 29:6] in simile of foot-sole of cherubim [Ezek 1:7] מַרְבֵּק ׳ע i.e. a stall-fed (fatted) calf [1Sam 28:24], in simile [Jer 46:21]; [Mal 3:20], compare מִתּוֺךְ מַרְבֵּק ׳ע [Amos 6:4] לֹא לֻמָּ֑ד ׳ע [Jer 31:18] an untrained calf; עֶגְלֵי עַמִּים [Ps 68:31] calves of peoples, i.e. peoples like calves, so most; perhaps read ׳בַּעֲלֵי עמ Matthes Che GunkSchöf. 66 f. compare Bae; calf as sacrifice victim [Mic 6:6]; [Lev 9:2]; [Lev 9:3]; [Lev 9:8] (P); cut in two, in ratifying covenant [Jer 34:18]; [Jer 34:19] (compare עֶגְלָה [Gen 15:9]); elsewhere image of calf: made at Horeb, מַסֵּכָה ׳ע [Exod 32:4]; [Exod 32:8]; [Deut 9:16]; [Neh 9:18] ׳ע alone [Exod 32:19]; [Exod 32:20]; [Exod 32:24]; [Exod 32:35]; [Deut 9:21]; [Ps 106:19] two set up by Jeroboam I in Northern Israel, [1Kgs 12:28]; [1Kgs 12:32]; [2Kgs 10:29]; [2Kgs 17:16]; [2Chr 11:15]; [2Chr 13:8], compare [Hos 8:5]; [Hos 8:6] (עגְלֵךְ, שֹׁמְרוֺן ׳ע), [Hos 13:2] also [Hos 10:5] (see I. עֶגְלָה near the end).
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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