Library Home>Boyd's Bible Dictionary>Boyd's Bible Dictionary: H>Heifer (#109261)

Heifer

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: H By: James P. Boyd

Listen to This Article

(high-bullock). Red heifers sacrificial (Num. 19:10¹⁰And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. (Numbers 19:10)). Frequent source of metaphor (Judg. 14:18¹⁸And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. (Judges 14:18); Isa. 15:5⁵My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. (Isaiah 15:5); Jer. 46:20²⁰Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. (Jeremiah 46:20); Hos. 4:16¹⁶For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place. (Hosea 4:16)).

Click here to show subject links in the text for more information.

Previous Article

Boyd's Bible Dictionary: H

• Hazezon-tamar

• Hebrews, Epistle to

• Hegai, Hege

• Heifer

• Heleb, Heled