ez · goat

What it means

ez (עֵז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “goat”.

Female goat; also goats' hair.

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 female of the goat flock, used for milk and hair.
2. The male goat, offered for sin.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Goat, the animal; in the plural, the goats as part of the flock. With the word for male (שָׂעִיר or צָפִיר) it is the male goat; it also names goats' hair.

• Goats and young goats of the flock Genesis 30:32Genesis 27:9Genesis 38:17
• The male goat for the sin offering Leviticus 4:23Numbers 29:5
• An animal fit for sacrifice Leviticus 1:10Exodus 12:5
• Goats' hair for weaving Exodus 25:41 Samuel 19:13

Historical and cultural background

The law of offerings asks, for the sin of a chief, “a male goat without defect” (Leviticus 4:23), and for that of one of the people “a female goat” (Leviticus 4:28). The Passover lamb could be taken “from the sheep or from the goats” (Exodus 12:5). Goats' hair was one of the gifts for the dwelling (Exodus 25:4).

How we translate it

“Male goat” 27 times when it goes with the word for male; “goats” 29 and “goat” 17; “young goat” when the Hebrew speaks of a kid (Genesis 27:9). With hair, “goats' hair” (Exodus 25:4).

How it is translated

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

• goats ×29
• male goat ×27
• goat ×17
• kid ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Exodus×7
• Leviticus×12
• Numbers×25
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×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.”

• Genesis 27:9

  Go, please, to the flock and get me from there two good young goats, and I will make them into tasty food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:16

  And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

• Genesis 30:32

  Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there every animal speckled and spotted, and every dark animal among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such will be my wages.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when you come to look over my wages before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, or dark among the lambs, if it is with me, will be counted as stolen.”

• Genesis 30:35

  On that day he removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every dark one among the lambs, and he gave them into the hands of his sons.

• Genesis 31:38

  These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten.

• Genesis 32:14

  two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

• Genesis 37:31

  They took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a male goat and dipped the robe in the blood.

• Genesis 38:17

  He said, “I will send a young goat from the flock.” She said, “If you give me a pledge until you send it.”

• Genesis 38:20

  Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to take the pledge from the hand of the woman, but he did not find her.

• Exodus 12:5

  Your lamb shall be without defect, a male, a year old; from the sheep or from the goats you shall take it.

• Exodus 25:4

  blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, and goats' hair;

• Exodus 26:7

  You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the dwelling; you shall make eleven curtains.

• Exodus 35:6

  and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair;

• Exodus 35:23

  And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine skins, brought them.

• Exodus 35:26

  And all the women whose heart stirred them with wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

• Exodus 36:14

  And he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the dwelling; eleven curtains he made them.

• Leviticus 1:10

  And if his offering is from the flock, from the lambs or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall present a male without defect.

• Leviticus 3:12

  And if his offering is a goat, he shall present it before YHWH.

• Leviticus 4:23

  or his sin that he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a male goat without defect.

• Leviticus 4:28

  or his sin that he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a female goat, without defect, for his sin that he has committed.

• Leviticus 5:6

  He shall bring his guilt offering to YHWH for his sin that he has committed: a female from the flock, a ewe lamb or a female goat, as a sin offering; and the priest shall make expiation for him for his sin.

• Leviticus 7:23

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: You shall not eat any fat of ox or lamb or goat.

• Leviticus 9:3

  And to the sons of Israel you shall speak, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, a year old, without defect, for a burnt offering,

• Leviticus 16:5

  And from the community of the sons of Israel he shall take two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 17:3

  Any man of the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,

• Leviticus 22:19

  it shall be for your acceptance: a male without defect from the herd, from the sheep, or from the goats.

• Leviticus 22:27

  “When a calf or a lamb or a kid is born, it shall be seven days under its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a fire offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:19

  And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace.

• Numbers 7:16

  one male goat for a sin offering;

• Numbers 7:22

  one male goat for a sin offering;

• Numbers 7:28

  one male goat for a sin offering;

• Numbers 7:34

  one male goat for a sin offering;

• Numbers 7:40

  one male goat for a sin offering;

• Numbers 7:46

  one male goat for a sin offering;

• Numbers 7:52

  one male goat for a sin offering;

• Numbers 7:58

  one male goat for a sin offering;

• Numbers 7:64

  one male goat for a sin offering;

• Numbers 7:70

  one male goat for a sin offering;

And 34 more times.