STRONGS NUMBER H5795


Word Summary
ez: female goat
Original Word: עֵז
Transliteration: ez
Phonetic Spelling: (aze)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: female goat
Meaning: female goat
Strong's Concordance
she goat, kid

From azaz; a she-goat (as strong), but masculine in plural (which also is used ellipt. For goat's hair) -- (she) goat, kid.

see HEBREW azaz

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5795. ez

עֵז74 noun feminineGenesis 15:9

she-goat; — absolute ׳עGenesis 15:9 6t.; plural עַזִּים27:9 65t.; suffix עִזֶּיךָ31:38; —

1 as property Genesis 30:32-33, 35 (J), 31:15, 38 (E), 1 Samuel 25:2.

2 as food: עִזִּים (גְּדִי) גְּדָיֵיkid(s) of she-goats Genesis 27:9, 16 (J) + 7 t., עִזִּים שְׂעִיר37:31 (J) a buck of goats, he-goat, עִזִּים שֵׂהDeuteronomy 14:4 a (n individual) goat; compare Leviticus 7:23 (P; fat forbidden); also ע ׳חֲלֵבProverbs 27:27 goats' milk.

3 as sacrificial victim, chiefly P:

a. in General Leviticus 22:27 (H), Numbers 15:11.

b. in בְּרִיתGenesis 15:9 (J E; compare 15:18).

c. מֶּסַחExodus 12:5 (שֶׂה‎), עִזִּים בְּנֵי2 Chronicles 35:7.

d. עוֺלָהLeviticus 22:19 (H), 1:10; Numbers 28:30 (ע ׳שְׂעִיר‎).

e. שְׁלָמִים זֶבַחLeviticus 3:12; 17:3 (H; compare 17:5), אִשֶּׁהNumbers 18:17 (ע ׳בְּכוֺר‎).

f. ע ׳שְׂעִיר חַטָּאת,Ezekiel 43:22; 45:23; Leviticus 4:23 3t. Leviticus; Numbers 7:16 19t. Numbers; עִזִּים שְׂעִירַתa single she-goat Leviticus 4:28; 5:6; זִּים עְפִרֵי2 Chronicles 29:21 he-goats.

4 עִזִּים‎ = goats' hair, as material 1 Samuel 19:13, 16; Exodus 25:4 6t. P (35:26 object of טָווּ‎!).

5 in simile עִזִּים חֲשַׂפֵי1 Kings 20:27 (see [ חָשִׂיף‎]); הָע ׳כְּעֵדַרSong of Solomon 4:1; 6:5, of flowing, undulating hair.

6 הָע ׳צְפִיר‎ Du Song of Solomon 8:5, 8 he-goat in vision.

ענז‎ (√ of following; see Biblical Hebrew עֵז ענז,‎).