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# עֵז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5795

**she-goat** — used 74 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

she-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5795/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵז²: n.f. she-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5795/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Gn 15:9 she-goat;—abs. ע׳ Gn 15:9 + 6 times; pl. עִזִּים 27:9 + 65 times; sf. עִזֶּיךָ 31:38;— as property Gn 30:22, 33, 35 (J), 31:38 (E), 1 S 25:2. as food: עִזִּים (גְּדִי) גְּדָיֵי kid(s) of she-goats Gn 27:9, 16 (J) + 7 times, שְׂעִיר עִזּים 37:31 (J) a buck of goats, he-goat, שֵׂה עִזִּים Dt 14:4 a(n individual) goat; cf. Lv 7:23 (P; fat forbidden); also חֲלֵב ע׳ Pr 27:27 goats’ milk. as sacrificial victim, chiefly P: in gen. Lv 22:27 (H), Nu 15:11. in בְּרִית Gn 15:9 (JE; cf. v 18). פֶּסַח Ex 12:5 (שֶׂה), בְּנֵי עִזִּים 2 Ch 35:7. עוֹלָה Lv 22:19 (H), 1:10 Nu 28:30 (שְׂעִיר ע׳). זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים Lv 3:12; 17:3 (H; cf. v 5), אִשֶּׁה Nu 18:17 (בְּכוֹר ע׳). f. חַטָּאת, שְׂעִיר ע׳ Ez 43:22; 45:23 Lv 4:23 + 3 times Lv, Nu 7:16 + 19 times Nu; שְׂעִירַת עִזִּים a single she-goat Lv 4:28; 5:6; צְפִירֵי עִזִּים 2 Ch 29:21 he-goats. עִזִּים = goats’ hair, as material 1 S 19:13, 16 Ex 25:4 + 6 times P (35:26 obj. of טָווּ!). in sim. חֲשִׂפֵי עִזִּים 1 K 20:27 (v. \[חָשִׂיף\]); כְּעֵדֶר הָע׳ Ct 4:1; 6:5, of flowing, undulating hair. צְפִיר הָע׳ Dn 8:5, 8 he-goat in vision.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 37 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of goats (41); goats (7); goat hair(s) (5).

## In the verses

[Numbers 7:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.16/#tree)

שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* a.male.goat of.goats one to a.sin.offering

*JPS 1917:* one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

[Numbers 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.22/#tree)

שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* a.male.goat of.goats one to a.sin.offering

*JPS 1917:* one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5795.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5795/): 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).