STRONGS G1151:
δάμαλις,
-εως,
ἡ, (feminine of
ὁ δαμάλης a young bullock or steer),
a young cow, heifer (Aeschylus, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Lucian, others); used in
Numbers 19:2,
6,
9f for
פָּרָה and in
Hebrews 9:13 of the red heifer with whose ashes, by the Mosaic law, those were to be sprinkled who had become defiled. (Besides in the
Sept. chiefly for
עֶגְלָה.)
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