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Exodus 32:4 עֵ֣גֶל a calf of

He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Here: A young bull, which could be a yearling ready for sacrifice (Leviticus 9:3). It is not a newborn. In the ancient Near East a bull image stood for divine strength, fertility and kingship.

Exodus 32:8 עֵ֖גֶל a calf of

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

Here: A young bovine, often a yearling bull. In the ancient Near East a bull stood for strength, fertility and divine power. It was not a cuddly baby animal.

Exodus 32:19 הָעֵ֖גֶל the calf

As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

Here: The gold-plated or cast image Aaron made (32:4). An 'egel is a young bull, an animal that stood for strength and fertility in Canaanite and Egyptian religion. The definite article ('the calf') points to the object everyone is gathered around.

Exodus 32:20 הָעֵ֨גֶל the calf

Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

Exodus 32:24 הָעֵ֥גֶל the calf

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

Exodus 32:35 הָעֵ֔גֶל the calf

And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.

Leviticus 9:2 עֵ֣גֶל a male calf

He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.

Leviticus 9:3 וְעֵ֨גֶל and a male calf

Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without blemish—for a burnt offering,

Leviticus 9:8 עֵ֥גֶל [the] male calf of

So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.

Deuteronomy 9:16 עֵ֖גֶל a calf of

And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:21 הָעֵ֗גֶל the calf

And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

1 Samuel 28:24 עֵֽגֶל־ a calf of

The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

1 Kings 12:28 עֶגְלֵ֣י calves of

After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

Here: A young male of the herd, often a vigorous yearling bullock, not a newborn. The bull was the standard animal of divine strength in the Canaanite and Syrian world.

1 Kings 12:32 לָעֲגָלִ֣ים to the calves

And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

2 Kings 10:29 עֶגְלֵי֙ [the] calves of

but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

Here: "The calves of." The word means a young bull, not a newborn. This phrase explains what "the sins" were: the bull images at the two national shrines.

2 Kings 17:16 עֲגָלִ֑ים calves

They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

Here: 'Young bulls.' The word covers a young bovine up to a strong young bull in its prime. A bull stood for strength and fertility and was a common image for a god in Canaan.

2 Chronicles 11:15 וְלָעֲגָלִ֖ים and for the calves

And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

2 Chronicles 13:8 עֶגְלֵ֣י calves of

And now you think you can resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

Nehemiah 9:18 עֵ֣גֶל a calf of

Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

Psalm 29:6 עֵ֑גֶל a calf

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

Psalm 68:30 בְּעֶגְלֵ֬י with calves of

Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

Here: 'Among / with the calves of…'. The young animals of the herd, most likely the ordinary population following the bull-leaders. The bulls and calves together are the whole nation.

Psalm 106:19 עֵ֥גֶל a calf

At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

Isaiah 11:6 וְעֵ֨גֶל and calf

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.

Here: A young bull calf, a valuable farm animal and natural prey for a lion.

Isaiah 27:10 עֵ֛גֶל a calf

For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

Here: A young bovine, singular but standing for the whole herd. A farm animal wanders freely through the old fortifications.

Jeremiah 31:18 כְּעֵ֖גֶל like a calf

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

Here: A young bull (masculine) of the age to be broken to the yoke. Hosea had already pictured Ephraim as a heifer (Hos 4:16; 10:11).

Jeremiah 34:18 הָעֵ֙גֶל֙ the calf

And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.

Jeremiah 34:19 הָעֵֽגֶל׃ the calf

The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,

Jeremiah 46:21 כְּעֶגְלֵ֣י [are] like calves of

Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time of their punishment.

Here: 'Like calves of…' continues the cattle picture of v. 20, where Egypt is a 'beautiful heifer'. Her hired soldiers are the young calves of the herd.

Ezekiel 1:7 עֵ֔גֶל a calf

Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, gleaming like polished bronze.

Hosea 8:5 עֶגְלֵ֣ךְ calf your

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Hosea 8:6 עֵ֖גֶל [the] calf of

For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

Hosea 13:2 עֲגָלִ֖ים calves

Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”

Here: The bull images, above all the state shrine images set up by Jeroboam I at Bethel and Dan (1 Kgs 12:28–29; Hos 8:5–6; 10:5).

Amos 6:4 וַעֲגָלִ֖ים and calves

You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

Here: Young cattle. Killing a calf gave up years of future work and breeding, so veal was feast food, the sort of thing served to an honoured guest.

Micah 6:6 בַּעֲגָלִ֖ים with calves

With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

Here: 'With calves.' Young cattle, more valuable than sheep or goats. This begins the escalation that runs through verse 7: calves, thousands of rams, rivers of oil, and finally one's own firstborn.

Malachi 4:2 כְּעֶגְלֵ֥י like calves of

“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.

Here: 'Like calves of': young cattle, full of strength and energy.