egla · heifer

What it means

egla (עֶגְלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heifer”.

Young cow.

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. A young cow.
2. Eglath-shelishiyah, a place in Moab named by Isaiah.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• heifer ×11
• Eglath-shelishiyah ×2
• calves ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×4
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Hosea×2

• Genesis 15:9

  He said to him, “Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

• Deuteronomy 21:3

  And the city that is nearest to the slain one, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.

• Deuteronomy 21:4

  And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an ever-flowing stream, which is not worked or sown, and they shall break the neck of the heifer there in the stream.

• Deuteronomy 21:6

  And all the elders of that city who are nearest to the slain one shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the stream,

• Judges 14:18

  And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.”

• 1 Samuel 16:2

  Samuel said, “How can I go? Saul will hear it and kill me.” YHWH said, “Take a heifer of the herd in your hand, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to YHWH.’

• Isaiah 7:21

  And it will happen on that day that a man will keep alive a heifer of the herd and two sheep.

• Isaiah 15:5

  My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives as far as Zoar, Eglath-shelishiyah; for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up it; for on the road of Horonaim they raise a cry of shattering.

• Jeremiah 46:20

  A heifer very beautiful is Egypt; a gadfly from the north is coming, coming.

• Jeremiah 48:34

  From the outcry of Heshbon to Elealeh, to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will be desolations.

• Jeremiah 50:11

  Because you rejoice, because you exult, plunderers of my inheritance, because you frisk like a heifer threshing, and neigh like stallions,

• Hosea 10:5

  For the calves of Beth-aven the inhabitants of Samaria will be afraid; for its people will mourn over it, and its pagan priests who rejoiced over it, over its glory, because it has gone into exile from it.

• Hosea 10:11

  And Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will pass over the beauty of her neck; I will make Ephraim ride; Judah will plow; Jacob will harrow for himself.

And 1 more times.