עֵז
she-goat
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H5796 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun עז centers on the idea of “she-goat.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Ezra dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Ezra 6:17. Related forms include עז and עזאזל. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5796 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Goats 1×
- American Standard Version: - goats 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: not separately translated
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Goats 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5796 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5796 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Does not render H5796 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5796 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
11 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 11 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- 1. as property Gn 30:22, 33, 35 (J), 31:38 (E), 1 S 25:2. e.g. Genesis 30:22
- 2. as food: עִזִּים (גְּדִי) גְּדָיֵי kid(s) of she-goats Gn 27:9, 16 (J) + 7 times, שְׂעִיר עִזּים 37:31 (J) a buck of goats, he-goat, שֵׂה עִזִּים Dt 14:4 a(n individual) goat; cf. Lv 7:23 (P; fat forbidden); also חֲלֵב ע׳ Pr 27:27 goats’ milk. e.g. Genesis 27:9
- 3. as sacrificial victim, chiefly P:
- a. in gen. Lv 22:27 (H), Nu 15:11. e.g. Leviticus 22:27
- b. in בְּרִית Gn 15:9 (JE; cf. v 18). e.g. Genesis 15:9
- c. פֶּסַח Ex 12:5 (שֶׂה), בְּנֵי עִזִּים 2 Ch 35:7. e.g. Exodus 12:5
- d. עוֹלָה Lv 22:19 (H), 1:10 Nu 28:30 (שְׂעִיר ע׳). e.g. Leviticus 22:19
- e. זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים Lv 3:12; 17:3 (H; cf. v 5), אִשֶּׁה Nu 18:17 (בְּכוֹר ע׳). f. חַטָּאת, שְׂעִיר ע׳ Ez 43:22; 45:23 Lv 4:23 + 3 times Lv, Nu 7:16 + 19 times Nu; שְׂעִירַת עִזִּים a single she-goat Lv 4:28; 5:6; צְפִירֵי עִזִּים 2 Ch 29:21 he-goats. e.g. Leviticus 3:12
- 4. עִזִּים = goats’ hair, as material 1 S 19:13, 16 Ex 25:4 + 6 times P (35:26 obj. of טָווּ!). e.g. 1 Samuel 19:13
- 5. in sim. חֲשִׂפֵי עִזִּים 1 K 20:27 (v. [חָשִׂיף]); כְּעֵדֶר הָע׳ Ct 4:1; 6:5, of flowing, undulating hair. e.g. 1 Kings 20:27
- 6. צְפִיר הָע׳ Dn 8:5, 8 he-goat in vision. e.g. Daniel 8:5
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. Gn 15:9 she-goat;—abs. ע׳ Gn 15:9 + 6 times; pl. עִזִּים 27:9 + 65 times; sf. עִזֶּיךָ 31:38;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עז (ʻêz) (H5795) — female goat.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עוֹז I
- fortitude, strength, majesty. Ber. 6ᵃ התפלין ע׳ הם לישראל T’fillin are a sign of strength to Israel. Ex. R. s. 8 לבושו של הקב"ה ע׳ the garment of the Lord is strength (with ref. to Ps. XCIII, 1). Midr. Till. to Ps. VIII, 3 אין ע׳ אלא תורה וכ׳ ‘strength’ means the Law, as we read (Ps. XXIX, 11) &c.; Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 3 אין עָוִּי וכ׳ ‘my strength’ (Ex. XV, 2) means &c. Ber. 16ᵇ תתכסה בעָזְּךָ clothe thyself in thy majesty; a. fr. e.g. Psalms 93:1
עַז
- strong, firm; vehement, rough; (of colors) bright, intense; (of smell and taste) pungent, acrid. Yoma 67ᵇ (expl. עזאזל) שיהא עז וקשה the mountain must be rough and hard (rocky). Yalk. Ps. 852 (ref. to Ps. XCIX, 4) you will find, מי שהוא עז וכ׳ he who is powerful does not care to abide by the law; Midr. Till. to Ps. l. c. ed. Bub. עוז (corr. acc.). Ab. V, 20 הוי עז כנמר וכ׳ be strong (energetic) like a tiger … to do the will of thy Father in heaven; a. fr.—עז פנים insolent, impudent. Ab. l. c.; a. e.—Fem. עַזָּה. Neg. I, 1, a. fr., v. בַּהֶרֶת. Ker. 6ᵃ כדי שתהא ע׳ that it may have a pungent flavor.—Pl. עַזִּים, עַזִּין; עַזּוֹת. Bets. 25ᵇ מפני מה … מפניּ שהם ע׳ why was the Law given to Israel? Because they are impetuous (and the Law was to discipline them). Ib. שלשה ע׳ הן וכ׳ three (creatures) are of a vehement temper, Israel among the nations, the dog among the beasts &c.; a. fr.—Sabb. 30ᵇ; Ber. 16ᵇ עַזֵּי פנים insolent people, v. עַזּוּת. Taan. 7ᵇ; a. e. e.g. Psalms 99:4
עֹז
- , v. עוֹז
עֵז
- c. (b. h.; goat. Bets. 25ᵇ אף עז וכ׳ (among the aggressive creatures, v. עַז) also the goat among the small cattle. Bekh. III, 1 עז בת שנתה וכ׳ that born of a goat in her first year belongs surely to the priest (as first-born); a. fr.—Pl. עִזִּים. Ḥull. 113ᵇ; a. fr.—V. עִיזָּה.
עֵז ²
- ch., v. עִיז
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5796, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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