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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5768

עוֹלֵל

olelo-lale'

infant

20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻôwlêl

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5768is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5768

a suckling

The King James renders it: babe, (young) child, infant, little one.

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

olel is rendered "infant". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Lamentations, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 15:3Now 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.’”
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

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 15:3מֵֽעֹלֵל֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's twenty uses are in Lamentations.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • child4
  • children3
  • and children their2
  • children her2
  • children your2
  • children its1
  • children of1
  • children their1
  • from a child1
  • from child1
  • like children1
  • to children their1

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.

עוֹלָםolamforever: enduringUses438

All 20, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 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

  • עוֹלָל֙2
  • וְעֹלְלֵיהֶ֣ם1
  • וְעֹלְלֵיהֶ֥ם1
  • כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗ים1
  • לְעוֹלְלֵיהֶֽם׃1
  • מֵעוֹלֵ֖ל1
  • מֵֽעֹלֵל֙1
  • עוֹלֵ֥ל1
  • עוֹלֵל֙1
  • עוֹלָלֶ֛יהָ1
  • עֽוֹלָלַ֔יִךְ1
  • עֽוֹלָלִים֙1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine plural3HNcmpa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HNcmpc/Sp3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HC/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp2fs
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp3mp
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp

1 Samuel

two uses
  • 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 15:3

    • מֵֽעֹלֵל֙meolelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from a child
  • He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

    1 Samuel 22:19

    • מֵעוֹלֵ֖לmeolelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from child

2 Kings

one use
  • “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.”

    2 Kings 8:12

    • וְעֹלְלֵיהֶ֣םveoleleihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and children their

Job

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

    Job 3:16

    • כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗יםkeolelimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like children

Psalms

three uses
  • From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

    Psalms 8:2

    • עֽוֹלְלִ֨ים׀ʾolimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: children
  • from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.

    Psalms 17:14

    • לְעוֹלְלֵיהֶֽם׃leoleihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to children their
  • Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

    Psalms 137:9

    • עֹ֝לָלַ֗יִךְʾolalayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: children your

Isaiah

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

    Isaiah 13:16

    • וְעֹלְלֵיהֶ֥םveoleleihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and children their

Jeremiah

three uses
  • 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 6:11

    • עוֹלָל֙olalnoun · masculine singulartagged: child
  • 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 9:21

    • עוֹלָל֙olalnoun · masculine singulartagged: child
  • 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?

    Jeremiah 44:7

    • עוֹלֵ֥לolelnoun · masculine singulartagged: child

Lamentations

five uses
  • Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

    Lamentations 1:5

    • עוֹלָלֶ֛יהָolaleihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: children her
  • My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

    Lamentations 2:11

    • עוֹלֵל֙olelnoun · masculine singulartagged: child
  • Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

    Lamentations 2:19

    • עֽוֹלָלַ֔יִךְolalayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: children your
  • Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

    Lamentations 2:20

    • עֹלֲלֵ֣יʾolaleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: children of
  • The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

    Lamentations 4:4

    • עֽוֹלָלִים֙olalimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: children

Hosea

one use
  • Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

    Hosea 13:16

    • עֹלְלֵיהֶ֣םʾoleleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: children their

Joel

one use
  • Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

    Joel 2:16

    • עֽוֹלָלִ֔יםolalimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: children

Micah

one use
  • You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.

    Micah 2:9

    • עֹֽלָלֶ֔יהָʾolaleihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: children her

Nahum

one use
  • Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

    Nahum 3:10

    • עֹלָלֶ֛יהָʾolaleihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: children its

The letters

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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