Golden Calf

عجل الذهب

Golden Calf (عجل الذهب) is mentioned in the Quran, and refers to the false idol worshipped by the Israelites during Moses' absence.

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is an instance ofFalse DeityIdolالأصنامGolden Calfعجل الذهبThe golden calfالعجل
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Sources: Tanzil (text, verbatim) · Quranic Arabic Corpus, © Kais Dukes, GNU GPL (morphology, syntax, word-by-word English, ontology) · Draft trees for 9:92 to 58: “Quranic” hybrid treebank, CC BY 4.0 · Translations: Pickthall (EN), Jalandhari (UR), via tanzil.net/trans · Themes: Quranpedia.net topics index (dump 2026-11-11) and classical tafsir citations · Indo-Pak text and font: DigitalKhatt (MIT, SIL OFL 1.1). Urdu word glosses are coming soon.