HebrewH5768Noun (Masculine)

עוֹלֵל

o.lel

17Occurrences
H5768Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a suckling

or עֹלָל; from H5763 (עוּל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
child, boy

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

עוֹלֵל appears 17 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Lamentations
5
1 Samuel
2
Jeremiah
2
Psalms
2
2 Kings
1
Isaiah
1
Job
1
Jol
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 15:3BSB

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.’”

Isaiah 13:16BSB

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

Job 3:16BSB

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

Lamentations 2:11BSB

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.

Lamentations 4:4BSB

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.