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Lexicon :: Strong's H5768 - ʿôlēl

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עוֹלֵל
Transliteration
ʿôlēl
Pronunciation
o-lale'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1579c

Strong’s Definitions

עוֹלֵל ʻôwlêl, o-lale'; or עֹלָל ʻôlâl; from H5763; a suckling:—babe, (young) child, infant, little one.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's H5768 in the following manner: children (13x), infant (3x), babes (2x), child (1x), little ones (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's H5768 in the following manner: children (13x), infant (3x), babes (2x), child (1x), little ones (1x).

  1. child, boy

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עוֹלֵל ʻôwlêl, o-lale'; or עֹלָל ʻôlâl; from H5763; a suckling:—babe, (young) child, infant, little one.
STRONGS H5768: Abbreviations
† עוֺלֵל, עוֺלָל noun masculineLamentations 2:19 child; — absolute עוֺלֵל 1 Samuel 15:3 +, עוֺלָל Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 9:20; usually plural עוֺלְלִים Psalm 8:3, עֹלְלִים Job 3:16, עוֺלָלִים Lamentations 4:4; Joel 2:16; construct עֹלְלֵי Lamentations 2:20; suffix עֹלָלַיִךְ Psalm 137:9, עֹלָלֶיהָ Micah 2:9 +, עֹלְלֵיהֶם 2 Kings 8:2 +, etc.; — child Micah 2:9; Lamentations 2:19, 20; Lamentations 4:4; + יוֺנֵק (sometimes distinguished from men and women), 1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 22:19; Psalm 8:3; Jeremiah 44:7; Lamentations 2:11; Joel 2:16, || בַּחוּרִים Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 9:20; || בָּנִים Psalm 17:14 (heirs of father); dashed in pieces (רטשׁ) by foe 2 Kings 8:12; Hosea 14:1; Nahum 3:10; Isaiah 13:16, compare Psalm 137:9 (נִפֵּץ); taken captive Lamentations 1:5; stillborn Job 3:16.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

15:3; 15:3; 22:19

2 Kings

8:2; 8:12

Job

3:16; 3:16

Psalms

8:3; 8:3; 17:14; 137:9; 137:9

Isaiah

13:16

Jeremiah

6:11; 6:11; 9:20; 9:20; 44:7

Lamentations

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

Hosea

14:1

Joel

2:16; 2:16

Micah

2:9; 2:9

Nahum

3:10

H5768

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Strong's Number H5768 matches the Hebrew עוֹלֵל (ʿôlēl),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Now go and smite Am'alek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both men and women, children and sucklings, oxen, asses and sheep, he put to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Haz'ael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set on fire their fortresses, and you will slay their young men with the sword, and dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child."

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 - from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men whose portion in life is of the world. May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their babes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 - Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:16 - Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the old folk and the very aged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - For death has come up into our windows, it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 - Her foes have become the head, her enemies prosper, because the LORD has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 - My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult; my heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 - Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 - Look, O LORD, and see! With whom hast thou dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 - The tongue of the nursling cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:16 - Sama'ria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:9 - The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:10 - Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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