{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5697",
  "lemma": "עֶגְלָה",
  "transliteration": "ʻeglâh",
  "definition": "a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer)",
  "kjv": "calf, cow, heifer.",
  "occurrences": 14,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "עֶגְלָה n.f. heifer",
    "עֶגְלַת n.pr.loc",
    "עֶגְלַת n.pr.loc. (the) third Eglath, near Zoar and S. border of Moab"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 15:9",
      "text": "He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 21:3",
      "text": "It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 21:4",
      "text": "The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 21:6",
      "text": "All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 14:18",
      "text": "The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 16:2",
      "text": "Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” The LORD said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/16?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 7:21",
      "text": "It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/7?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 15:5",
      "text": "My heart cries out for Moab! Her Nazirites flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/15?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 46:20",
      "text": "“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/46?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 48:34",
      "text": "From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/48?v=34"
    }
  ],
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