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Strong's #5795 - עֵז
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- female goat, she-goat, goat, kid
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she-goat; — absolute ׳ע Genesis 15:9 6t.; plural עַזִּים Genesis 27:9 65t.; suffix עִזֶּיךָ Genesis 31:38; —
1 as property Genesis 30:32,33,35 (J), Genesis 31:15,38 (E), 1 Samuel 25:2.
2 as food: גְּדָיֵי (גְּדִי) עִזִּים kid(s) of she-goats Genesis 27:9,16 (J) + 7t., שְׂעִיר עִזִּים Genesis 37:31 (J) a buck of goats, Hebrews -goat, שֵׂה עִזִּים Deuteronomy 14:4 a (n individual) goat; compare Leviticus 7:23 (P; fat forbidden); also ׳חֲלֵב ע Proverbs 27:27 goats' milk.
3 as sacrificial victim, chiefly P:
a. in General Leviticus 22:27 (H), Numbers 15:11.
b. in בְּרִית Genesis 15:9 (J E; compare Genesis 15:18).
c.מֶּסַח Exodus 12:5 (שֶׂה), בְּנֵי עִזִּים 2 Chronicles 35:7.
d.עוֺלָה Leviticus 22:19 (H), Leviticus 1:10; Numbers 28:30 (׳שְׂעִיר ע).
e.זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים Leviticus 3:12; Leviticus 17:3 (H; compare Leviticus 17:5), אִשֶּׁה Numbers 18:17 (׳בְּכוֺר ע).
f.חַטָּאת, ׳שְׂעִיר ע Ezekiel 43:22; Ezekiel 45:23; Leviticus 4:23 3t. Leviticus; Numbers 7:16 19t. Numbers; שְׂעִירַת עִזִּים a single she-goat Leviticus 4:28; Leviticus 5:6; עְפִרֵי זִּים 2 Chronicles 29:21 Hebrews -goats.
4עִזִּים = goats' hair, as material 1 Samuel 19:13,16; Exodus 25:4 6t. P ( Exodus 35:26 object of טָווּ!).
5 in simile חֲשַׂפֵי עִזִּים 1 Kings 20:27 (see [ חָשִׂיף]); ׳כְּעֵדַר הָע Song of Solomon 4:1; Song of Solomon 6:5, of flowing, undulating hair.
6׳צְפִיר הָע Du Song of Solomon 8:5,8 Hebrews -goat in vision.
ענז (√ of following; see Biblical Hebrew ענז, עֵז).
עֵז pl. עִזִּים f.
(1) a she-goat. (Syr. ܥܙܶܐܳ; Arab. عَنْزُ; Phœnic. ἄζα, Steph. Byz. The same word is found in the Indo-Germanic languages, as the Sansc. adsha, a he-goat; adsĥ, a she-goat; Goth. ǵitsa; Anglo-Sax. ĝt; Germ. Geis, with a harder form, Gems, chamois; Gr. αἴξ, αἰγός; also the Turkish gieik, ghieizi; comp. Grimm, Deutsche Gram. iii. 328.) גְּדִי עִזִּים a kid of goats, Genesis 27:9. שֵׂה עִזִּים a goat, i.e. the goat (ein Stück Ziegenvieh), [an individual for the species], Deuteronomy 14:4.
(2) pl. עִזִּים goats’ hair, Exodus 26:7, 36:14 1 Samuel 19:13.
עֵז Ch. i.q. Heb. No. 1, Ezra 6:17.