עוּל
ʻûwl · H5763 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to suckle, to nurse
State in which animals have young that depend on their milk
ExamplesGenesis 33:13 But he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds that are nursing are a matter of concern to me. And if they are driven hard just one day, all the flocks will die.
1 Samuel 6:7 “Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never been a yoke; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves back home, away from them.
1 Samuel 6:10 Then the men did so: they took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut in their calves at home.
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- בָּקָרcattle, oxen 1
- צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ נִיme 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יָדַעto know 1
- נָהַלto lead, to guide 1
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
- Wrong002001003019
- עוּל here describes a nursing or milch animal, an adjective of physical/reproductive condition rather than a moral-wrong sense, illustrated at Genesis 33:13 ("the flocks and herds that are nursing are a matter of concern to me") and 1 Samuel 6:7 ("two milk cows on which there has never been a yoke") — this Wrong domain code is bundle-shared from this lexeme's homographic root עֲוַל (ʻăval, H5765) ("deal unjustly") and carries no tagged occurrence of עוּל (ʻûwl, H5763) independently attesting a moral-wrongdoing sense.
- Ingest002001001025
- עוּל describes nursing young animals, as in Genesis 33:13's flocks and herds that are "nursing" and Isaiah 40:11's shepherd gently leading "the nursing ewes."
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5763. ul I. [עוּל] verb give suck (Arabic , give suck (while pregnant); compare Aramaic…
I. [עוּל] verb give suck (Arabic , give suck (while pregnant); compare Aramaic foetus, sucking child; foal, so Ethiopic image unavailable Talmud עִילָה); —
Qal Participle feminine plural עָלוֺת giving suck, of cows 1Sa 6:7, 1Sa 6:10; ewes Psa 78:71 and (figurative of returning exiles) Isa 40:11; of both Gen 33:13 (J).
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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