Word Summary
damalis: a heifer
Original Word: δάμαλιςTransliteration: damalis
Phonetic Spelling: (dam'-al-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a heifer
Meaning: a heifer
Strong's Concordance
heifer.
Probably from the base of damazo; a heifer (as tame) -- heifer.
see GREEK damazo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1151: δάμαλιςδάμαλις,
δαμαλισεως,
ἡ (feminine of
ὁ δαμάλης a young bullock or steer),
a young cow, heifer (
Aeschylus,
Dionysius Halicarnassus,
Lucian, others); used in
Numbers 19:2, 6, 9f for
פָּרָה and in
Hebrews 9:13 of the red heifer with whose ashes, by the Mosaic law, those were to be sprinkled who had become defiled. (Besides in the
Sept. chiefly for
עֶגְלָה.)