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Heifer

A young cow, used in sacrifice at the temple, Num. xix, 1–10. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

View overview sources
  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H6510, G1151
Hebrew
פָּרָה
Greek
δάμαλις · damalis

Strong’s and original-language information

H6510

פָּרָה

Glosses: heifer, cow

Indexed occurrences: 22

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G1151

δάμαλις · damalis

Glosses: heifer

δάμαλις, -εως, ἡ (fem. of δαμάλης, a bullock), [in LXX chiefly for פָּרָה, עֶגְלָה ; ] a heifer, Heb.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Heifer

Heb. eglah, (Deut. 21:4, 6; Jer. 46:20). Untrained to the yoke (Hos. 10:11); giving milk (Isa. 7:21); ploughing (Judg. 14:18); treading out grain (Jer. 50:11); unsubdued to the yoke an emblem of Judah (Isa. 15:5; Jer. 48:34). Heb. parah (Gen. 41:2; Num. 19:2). Bearing the yoke (Hos. 4:16); "heifers of Bashan" (Amos 4:1), metaphorical for the voluptuous females of Samaria. The ordinance of sacrifice of the "red heifer" described in Num. 19:1-10; comp. Heb. 9:13.

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

HEIFER

a young cow, used in sacrifice at the temple, Num. xix, 1–10. Moses and Aaron were instructed to deliver the divine command to the children of Israel that they should procure “a red heifer, without spot,” that is, one that was entirely red, without one spot of any other colour;

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

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