She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
"In calling her a ’heifer’ he was ridiculing her for her untamed and stubborn spirit (cf. Jeremiah 50:11; Hosea 4:16)." [Note: Lindsey, p. 405.] 