H5768 - עוֹלֵל (ʻôwlêl)

H5768 עוֹלֵל (ʻôwlêl) o-lale'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

infant

Strong's Definition

a suckling

Derivation: or עֹלָל; from H5763 (עוּל);

KJV Usage: babe, (young) child, infant, little one.

TWOT Reference: 1579c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) child, boy

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3516 G5043

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

child, boy

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עֹלָל / עוֹלֵל ‛ôlêl / ‛ôlâl BDB Definition: 1) child, boy Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5763 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1579c Total KJV Occurrences: 20

Bible Occurrences (20)

15:3 22:19

8:12

3:16

8:2 17:14 137:9

13:16

6:11 9:21 44:7

1:5 2:11 2:19 2:20 4:4

13:16

2:16

2:9

3:10

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.

1 Samuel 22:19

He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.......

2 Kings 8:12

Why is my lord weeping? asked Hazael. Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites, [Elisha] replied. You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.

Job 3:16

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Isaiah 13:16

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

Jeremiah 6:11

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old [alike]....

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Jeremiah 44:7

So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?