Crossword-Solution: EGEL 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Besides that, they have kept up their family talents as well as their family looks: old documents tell us that the original Egel was very skilful in making trowels, spoons, rakes and sabots, while the first Äsel had a wonderfully fine voice for singing, and so it is to this very day, and that is why my ancestors and I have always been particular in choosing an Äsel as night-watchman, and an Egel as wheel-wright.

Then an old white-haired fellow, John Egel, came forward--you know him, he's one of the oldest of them all--and said, that they were not 'gentlemen,' no one knew that better than they did, and they had only come to speak to him, their master, out of the goodness of their hearts, and not to exchange sharp words.

You see, that old fellow, Johann Egel, stepped up,--you know him, he is one of the oldest, with the white hair,--and said they were not _masters_, no one knew that better than they, and in coming to him as their master, they had acted from good intentions, and not because they wished to use hard words.

The Hebrew word _egel_ or _ghegel_ has been usually taken to mean calf, but, say these gentlemen, erroneously so, its true signification being altogether different.

Beke contends that in any case, it is inconceivable that the figure of a calf should have been chosen to represent the invisible God--he concludes, therefore, that the word _egel_ has been wrongly translated.