Word

עֲוִיל

ʻăvîyl · H5759 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. child

    A person of a young age, usually before puberty

    Examples

    Job 19:18 “Even young children despise me; I stand up and they speak against me.

    Job 21:11 “They send out their boys like the flock, And their children dance.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
People001001003
עֲוִיל in this sense denotes young children, as in Job 19:18's "young children despise me" and Job 21:11's children who "dance" alongside their parents' flocks.
Evil002001002007
עֲוִיל denotes young boys or children spoken of disparagingly, illustrated at Job 19:18 ("even young children despise me") and Job 21:11 ("they send out their boys like the flock, and their children dance"), the term occurring only in Job of the mocking or carefree young.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5759. avil I. [עֲוִיל] noun masculine young boy; — plural עֲוִילִים Job 19:18; suffix…
H5759. avil
I. [עֲוִיל] noun masculine young boy; — plural עֲוִילִים Job 19:18; suffix עֲוִילֵיהֶם Job 21:11. — II.עֲוִיל below III. עול. below
III. עול (√ of following, compare Arabic , deviate from (right course); Aramaic Aph`el act unjustly, and many derivatives, עַוְלָא unrighteousness; Ethiopic pervert, corrupt).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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