Eglath

In Bible versions:

Eglath: NET
Eglath-Shelishiya: AVS TEV
Eglath Shelishiyah: NIV
Eglath-shelishiyah: NRSV NASB

a town of Moab

Hebrew

Strongs #05697: hlge `eglah

1) heifer

5697 `eglah eg-law'

feminine of 5695; a (female) calf, especially one nearly
grown (i.e. a heifer):-calf, cow, heifer.
see HEBREW for 05695

Strongs #07992: yvylv sh@liyshiy

1) third, one third, third part, third time
1a) ordinal number

7992 shliyshiy shel-ee-shee'

ordinal from 7969; third; feminine a third (part); by
extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a
third-story cell):-third (part, rank, time), three (years
old).
see HEBREW for 07969

Eglath Shelishiyah [NAVE]

EGLATH SHELISHIYAH
Isa. 15:5; Jer. 48:34

EGLATH-SHELISHIYAH [ISBE]

EGLATH-SHELISHIYAH - eg'-lath-shel-i-shi'-ya (`eghlath shelishiyah): Found in Isa 15:5; Jer 48:34 (Hebrew) in oracles against Moab. the King James Version translates "an heifer of three years old"; the Revised Version (British and American) takes it as the name of a place, but the American Revised Version, margin has "a heifer three years old," according to Septuagint. In the former case strong and unconquered cities, Zoar and Horonaim, are compared to the heifer not yet broken to the yoke. Such use of "heifer" is not infrequent (compare Jer 46:20; Hos 10:11, etc.). The majority of scholars, however, take it as a place-name. Some would read "the third Eglath," as if there were three towns of that name. No probable identification has been suggested.

W. Ewing