עוֹלֵל olel

Hebrew word for “infant” · Strong’s H5768 · used 20 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

child, boy

How it is translated

Glosses given for olel in context, with how often each is used:

• children 15
• child 4
• like children 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Lamentations 2 (3), 1 Samuel 15 (1), 1 Samuel 22 (1), 2 Kings 8 (1), Job 3 (1), Psalms 8 (1), Psalms 17 (1), Psalms 137 (1), Isaiah 13 (1), Jeremiah 6 (1)

Forms

• עולל 4
• עוללים 3
• ועלליהם 2
• עלליה 2
• מעלל 1
• מעולל 1
• כעללים 1
• לעולליהם 1
• עלליך 1
• עולליה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with olel more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יָנַק yanaq “to suckle” 7
• רָטַשׁ ratash “to dash in pieces” 4
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 7
• חוּץ chuts “outside” 4
• בָּחוּר bachur “youth” 3
• שָׁפַךְ shaphakh “to pour” 3
• עָטַף ataph “to enfeeble” 2
• הָרָה harah “pregnant” 2
• שֶׂה seh “sheep” 2
• רְחוֹב rechov “street/plaza” 2
• שְׁבִי shevi “captivity” 2
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 3

Key verses

The verses using olel that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 15:3 — Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and…
• 2 Kings 8:12 — And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set…
• Psalms 8:2 — Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
• Psalms 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid they are full of…
• Jeremiah 6:11 — Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men…
• Jeremiah 9:21 — For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
• Lamentations 1:5 — Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into…
• Lamentations 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children…
• Lamentations 2:19 — Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the…
• Lamentations 2:20 — Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be…
• Hosea 13:16 — Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women…
• Joel 2:16 — Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.