עוּל
ʻûwl · H5764 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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suckling, infant
A young child that still depends on its mother's milk
ExamplesIsaiah 49:15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.
Isaiah 65:20 “No longer will there be in it an infant who lives only a few days, Or an old person who does not live out his days; For the youth will die at the age of a hundred, And the one who does not reach the age of a hundred Will be thought accursed.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יוֹםday, time 1
- הּher 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁכַחto forget 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- טַף ṭaph · H2945 · young child, little one, dependants
- Hebrew collective/singular term for small children including infants; broader in scope but overlaps with עוּל in reference to very young children who are still dependent.
In the other Testament 2 words
- νήπιος nḗpios · G3516 · small child
- Greek equivalent for a suckling infant or very young child; standard translation equivalent in LXX contexts for early-stage children including nursing infants.
- βρέφος bréphos · G1025 · baby, infant, fetus
- Greek term for infant or newborn, often used for nursing children and the very young; overlaps semantically with עוּל as a term for the earliest stage of childhood.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- עוּל in this sense denotes a sucking child or infant, describing a category of person by age and dependency, distinct from its near-homograph's animal-nursing sense (עוּל (ʻûwl, H5763)).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5764. ul עוּל noun masculine sucking child, suckling; — construct ׳ע יָמִים Isa 65:20 a…
עוּל noun masculine sucking child, suckling; — construct ׳ע יָמִים Isa 65:20 a suckling of days, i.e. a few days old; suffix עוּלָהּ Isa 49:15 (|| בֶּןבִּֿטְנָהּ).
II. עול (√ of following; compare Arabic , feed, nourish; see Wetzst in DeJob 16:11).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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