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# עֲגָלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5699

**cart** — used 25 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cart [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5699/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲגָלָה: n.f. cart [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5699/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cart (from rolling of wheels; NH id.; Ph. (Pu.) עגלת (?) Lzb336; Aramaic עֲגַלְתָּא, ܥܳܓܶܠܬܳܐ; Sem. loan-word in Egyptian āgartȧ Bondi38, ʿagolt ErmanEgyptian 491; cf. also WilkinsonAnc. Egypt. (1878), i. 223–241, especially 235, also 249 (illustr. vehicles drawn by cattle, cf. 1 S 6:7 Nu 7:3));—abs. ע׳ 1 S 6:7 +, sf. עֶגְלָתוֹ Is 28:28; pl. עֲגָלוֹת Gn 45:19 +; cstr. עֶגְלֹת Nu 7:3;—cart, used for transporting persons and things Gn 45:19, 21, 27; 46:5 (E), 1 S 6:7(×2), 8, 10, 11, 14(×2), 2 S 6:3(×2) = 1 Ch 13:7(×2); Nu 7:3 (ע׳ צָב covered carts), v 3, 6, 7, 8 (P); in sim. Am 2:13, עֲבוֹת הַע׳ Is 5:18 cart-rope, אוֹפַן ע׳ 28:27 of (threshing-) wagon (cf. DrAm. p. 228), גִּלְגַּל ע׳ v 28 id.;—ע׳ = warchariots only ψ 46:10 (Du transport-wagons).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cart (9); carts (7); a cart (4).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 5:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.18/#tree)

ה֛וֹי מֹשְׁכֵ֥י הֶֽעָוֺ֖ן בְּחַבְלֵ֣י הַשָּׁ֑וְא וְכַעֲב֥וֹת הָעֲגָלָ֖ה חַטָּאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* woe.to! \[those.who\].draw.along (of \[the\].iniquity with.(the) cords of.(the) emptiness and like the.rope of.(the) cart sin

*JPS 1917:* Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,

[Amos 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.13/#tree)

הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י מֵעִ֖יק תַּחְתֵּיכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּעִיק֙ הָעֲגָלָ֔ה הַֽמְלֵאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ עָמִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* here! I \[am\].about.to.make.totter under you just as it.totters the cart (the) full (for itself cut.grain

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5699/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).