atud · male goat

What it means

atud (עַתּוּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “male goat”.

Full-grown male goat. Figuratively, a leader of a people.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The male of the goat, offered in sacrifice.
2. A leader or chief, so called after the male that goes before the flock.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Numbers×13
• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 31:10

  It happened at the time when the flock was in heat that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and look, the male goats that were mounting the flock were streaked, speckled, and mottled.

• Genesis 31:12

  He said, ‘Lift up, please, your eyes and see: all the male goats that are mounting the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

• Numbers 7:17

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.

• Numbers 7:23

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.

• Numbers 7:29

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.

• Numbers 7:35

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.

• Numbers 7:41

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

• Numbers 7:47

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.

• Numbers 7:53

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud.

• Numbers 7:59

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

• Numbers 7:65

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.

• Numbers 7:71

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

• Numbers 7:77

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ochran.

• Numbers 7:83

  and for the sacrifice of peace, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.

• Numbers 7:88

  and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace, twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, sixty male lambs a year old. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.

• Deuteronomy 32:14

  curds of cattle and milk of the flock, with the fat of lambs and rams, sons of Bashan, and male goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and the blood of the grape you drank, foaming wine.

• Psalms 50:9

  I will not take from your house a young bull, from your folds male goats.

• Psalms 50:13

  Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of male goats?

• Psalms 66:15

  Burnt offerings of fatlings I will offer up to you, with the smoke of rams; I will prepare cattle with male goats. Selah.

• Proverbs 27:26

  the lambs are for your clothing, and the price of a field the male goats,

• Isaiah 1:11

  For what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says YHWH. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and of the fat of fattened animals; and in the blood of bulls and of lambs and of male goats I do not delight.

• Isaiah 14:9

  Sheol below is stirred up for you to meet your coming; it rouses for you the shades, all the male goats of the earth; it makes rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

• Isaiah 34:6

  The sword of YHWH is full of blood, it is made fat with fat, with the blood of lambs and male goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for YHWH has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

• Jeremiah 50:8

  Flee from the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans go out, and be like male goats before the flock.

• Jeremiah 51:40

  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

• Ezekiel 27:21

  Arabia and all the chiefs of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs and rams and male goats, in these they were your merchants.

• Ezekiel 34:17

  And you, my sheep, thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am judging between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the male goats.

• Ezekiel 39:18

  The flesh of mighty men you will eat, and the blood of the chiefs of the earth you will drink — rams, lambs, and male goats, bulls, fatlings of Bashan all of them.

• Zechariah 10:3

  “Against the shepherds my anger has burned, and the male goats I will call to account; for YHWH Tsevaot has attended to his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his horse of majesty in battle.