Goat
עֵזStrong’s H5795ez
Appears in 74 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ez is the Hebrew word usually translated “goats”, “goat hair” and “goat”. It appears in 74 verses of the Old Testament.
“And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.”
Meaning
- Female goat, she-goat, goat, kid
How it's translated
- goats 42
- the goats 7
- goat hair 5
- a goat 4
- and goat hair 3
- and a goat 2
- among the goats 2
- she-goats 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 25
- Leviticus 12
- Genesis 11
- Exodus 7
- Judges 4
- 1 Samuel 4
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:8In contextTherefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
- Genesis 15:9And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
- Genesis 27:9Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
- Genesis 27:16And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
- Genesis 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
- Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
All 74 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עֵז ez · goat
female goat, she-goat, goat, kid Aramaic equivalent: ez (עֵז "goat" H5796)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “goat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GOAT, noun
An animal or quadruped of the genus Capra. The horns are hollow, turned upwards, erect and scabrous. Goats are nearly of the size of sheep, but stronger, less timid and more agile. They delight to frequent rocks and mountains, and subsist on scanty coarse food. The milk of the goat is sweet, nourishing and medicinal, and the flesh furnishes provisions to the inhabitants of countries where they abound.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.