egel · calf

What it means

egel (עֵגֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “calf”.

A young bull.

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 young of the bull, already strong; also the golden image Israel worshiped.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• calf ×23
• calves ×12

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×3
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 32:4

  And he took it from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a calf of cast metal. And they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

• Exodus 32:8

  They have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a calf of cast metal and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

• Exodus 32:19

  And it happened, as soon as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, that Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

• Exodus 32:20

  And he took the calf that they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it until it was fine dust, and scattered it on the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.

• Exodus 32:24

  So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, tear it off!’ And they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

• Exodus 32:35

  And YHWH plagued the people because they had made the calf that Aaron made.

• Leviticus 9:2

  He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a calf of the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before YHWH.

• 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 9:8

  Aaron drew near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering that was for himself.

• Deuteronomy 9:16

  I looked, and look, you had sinned against YHWH your Elohim; you had made for yourselves a cast calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way that YHWH had commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 9:21

  And your sin that you had made, the calf, I took and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

• 1 Samuel 28:24

  The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she hurried and sacrificed it; she took flour, kneaded it, and baked it into unleavened bread.

• 1 Kings 12:28

  So the king sought counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, “Enough for you of going up to Jerusalem. Look, your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

• 1 Kings 12:32

  Jeroboam held a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that was in Judah, and he went up to the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made; and he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

• 2 Kings 10:29

  Only from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin, Jehu did not turn away from following them: the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.

• 2 Kings 17:16

  They abandoned all the commandments of YHWH their Elohim and made for themselves a cast image, two calves; and they made an Asherah, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served Baal.

• 2 Chronicles 11:15

  He appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves that he had made.

• 2 Chronicles 13:8

  And now you propose to hold firm before the kingdom of YHWH in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and with you are the calves of gold that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

• Nehemiah 9:18

  Even when they made for themselves a calf of cast metal and said, ‘This is your god who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and committed great acts of contempt,

• Psalms 29:6

  He makes them skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.

• Psalms 68:30

  Rebuke the beast of the reeds, the community of bulls with the calves of the peoples, the one who humbles himself with pieces of silver; he has scattered the peoples who delight in battles.

• Psalms 106:19

  They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.

• Isaiah 11:6

  And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fattened animal together, and a little boy will lead them.

• Isaiah 27:10

  For the fortified city is solitary, an abode sent away and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf will graze, and there it will lie down and consume its branches.

• Jeremiah 31:18

  I have surely heard Ephraim grieving: ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf not trained; bring me back, and I will come back, for you are YHWH my Elohim.

• Jeremiah 34:18

  And I will make the men who transgressed my covenant, who did not carry out the words of the covenant that they made before me, like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its halves:

• Jeremiah 34:19

  the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the court officials and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the halves of the calf;

• Jeremiah 46:21

  Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like calves from the stall; for they too have turned back, they have fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

• Ezekiel 1:7

  And their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of the foot of a calf, and they sparkled like the gleam of burnished bronze.

• Hosea 8:5

  He has rejected your calf, Samaria; my anger burns against them; how long will they not be capable of innocence?

• Hosea 8:6

  For from Israel is it too; a craftsman made it, and it is not Elohim; for the calf of Samaria will be splinters.

• Hosea 13:2

  And now they keep sinning, and they have made for themselves a cast image from their silver, idols according to their understanding, the work of craftsmen, all of it; to them they say, “Those who sacrifice human beings, let them kiss calves.”

• Amos 6:4

  those who lie on beds of ivory, and sprawl on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;

• Micah 6:6

  With what shall I come before YHWH, and bow myself before the Elohim on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

• Malachi 4:2

  But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings; and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.