עוֹלֵל
o.lel
“infant”
Definition
a suckling
or עֹלָל; from H5763 (עוּל);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
עוֹלֵל appears 17 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.’”
Their infants will be dashed to piecesbefore their eyes,their houses will be looted,and their wives will be ravished.
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child,like an infant who never sees daylight?
My eyes fail from weeping;I am churning within.My heart is poured out in griefover the destruction of the daughter of my people,because children and infants faintin the streets of the city.
The nursing infant’s tongueclings in thirst to the roof of his mouth.Little children beg for bread,but no one gives them any.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.