Discussion
While fattened calves were usually killed for special feasts fattened kids were butchered regularly to supply meat for ordinary household meals. Kids of both male and female sexes were used for this purpose since the meat of male goats only acquired its strong smell when the goats became sexually active.
Translation
In Hebrew the word gedi is often used together with other words for goats, such as ‘ez, in expressions like gedi ‘izim, literally “a kid of goats” This longer expression means exactly the same as the single word gedi. In all cases a specific word or a phrase for a young goat or baby goat can be used. See the illustration in the previous entry.