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# עֲוִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5759

**young boy** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

young boy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5759/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲוִיל²: n.m. young boy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5759/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. young boy;—pl. עֲוִילִים Jb 19:18; sf. עֲוִילֵיהֶם 21:11.—ii. עֲוִיל sub III. עול.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (17 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: boys (1); young boys (1).

## In the verses

[Job 19:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.18/#tree)

גַּם־עֲ֭וִילִים מָ֣אֲסוּ בִ֑י אָ֝ק֗וּמָה וַיְדַבְּרוּ־בִֽי׃

*Word for word:* also young.boys they.reject (in) me I.arise and they.spoke against me

*JPS 1917:* Even urchins despised me; if I arise, they speak against me.

[Job 21:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.11/#tree)

יְשַׁלְּח֣וּ כַ֭צֹּאן עֲוִילֵיהֶ֑ם וְ֝יַלְדֵיהֶ֗ם יְרַקֵּדֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* they.send.forth like (the) flock boys their.young and children their they leap.about

*JPS 1917:* They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5759.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5759/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).