Hebrew verb · H5763
עוּל
ulool
to nurse
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻûwl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5763is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5763
to suckle, i.e. give milk
The King James renders it: milch, (ewe great) with young.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ul is rendered "to nurse". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 33:13But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
Genesis 33:13עָל֣וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- nursing5
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עוּל | ul | infant | Uses2 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עָל֔וֹת2
- עָל֣וֹת1
- עָל֗וֹת1
- עָל֖וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine plural5HVqrfpa
Genesis
one use
But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
- עָל֣וֹתalotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: nursing
1 Samuel
two uses
Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
- עָל֔וֹתalotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: nursing
So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
- עָל֔וֹתalotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: nursing
Psalms
one use
from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
- עָל֗וֹתalotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: nursing
Isaiah
one use
He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
- עָל֖וֹתalotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: nursing
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.