Genesis 15:9:5Gen.15.9.W5TAB
עֶגְלָ֣ה
egla
“a heifer”
- Transliteration
- eg-LA
- Extended
- ehg-LAA
- IPA
- /ʕɛɣ.ˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a heifer
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
eg-LA
- phraseyour reading level
eg-LA me-shu-LE-shet
- clause
va-YO-mer e-LAV ke-KHA LI eg-LA me-shu-LE-shet ve-EZ me-shu-LE-shet ve-A-yil me-shu-LASH
- sentence
va-YO-mer e-LAV ke-KHA LI eg-LA me-shu-LE-shet ve-EZ me-shu-LE-shet ve-A-yil me-shu-LASH ve-TOR ve-go-ZAL
Exegesis
Each of the three larger animals—eglah {עֶגְלָה | ʿeg-lāh} “heifer,” ʿez {עֵז | ʿēz} “goat,” and ayil {אַיִל | ʾa-yil} “ram”—is followed by the Pual participle meshulleshet / meshullash {מְשֻׁלֶּשֶׁת / מְשֻׁלָּשׁ | mə-šul-lē-šeṯ / mə-šul-lāš} “three years old,” creating tightly bound noun-age units.
Root and etymology
ʿ-g-layin–gimel–lamed
“calf”
In context — Genesis 15:9
And He said to him, “Take for Me a heifer three years old, and a female goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
About this coordinate
Genesis 15:9:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Genesis 15:9, so the Hebrew word עֶגְלָ֣ה (egla) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Gen.15.9.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.15.9.W5.S1) and character.