עֵגֶל

עֵ֫גֶל noun masculine^{2 Mos 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 Dl^{HWB 16} (compare against this Jen^Kosmol.110, but see also Jäger^{BAS ii. 2, 286}); Arabic id.; Ethiopic , compare also Hom^{NS 226}); — ׳ע absolute 2 Mos 32,19 +; construct 1 Sam 28,24 +; suffix עֶגְלֵךְ Hos 8,5 plural עֲגָלִים Hos 13,2 +; construct עֶגְלֵי 1 Kong 12,28 +; — calf Es 11,6; Es 27,10 in simile of leaping mountains Sl 29,6 in simile of foot-sole of cherubim Ezk 1,7 מַרְבֵּק ׳ע i.e. a stall-fed (fatted) calf 1 Sam 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 Sl 68,31 calves of peoples, i.e. peoples like calves, so most; perhaps read ׳בַּעֲלֵי עמ Matthes Che Gunk^{Schöf. 66 f.} compare Bae; calf as sacrifice victim Mik 6,6; 3 Mos 9,2; 3 Mos 9,3; 3 Mos 9,8 (P); cut in two, in ratifying covenant Jer 34,18; Jer 34,19 (compare עֶגְלָה 1 Mos 15,9); elsewhere image of calf: made at Horeb, מַסֵּכָה ׳ע 2 Mos 32,4; 2 Mos 32,8; 5 Mos 9,16; Neh 9,18 ׳ע alone 2 Mos 32,19; 2 Mos 32,20; 2 Mos 32,24; 2 Mos 32,35; 5 Mos 9,21; Sl 106,19 two set up by Jeroboam I in Northern Israel, 1 Kong 12,28; 1 Kong 12,32; 2 Kong 10,29; 2 Kong 17,16; 2 Kron 11,15; 2 Kron 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).