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# עוֹלֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5768

**child** — used 20 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

child [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5768/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוֹלֵל²: n.m. child [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5768/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. La 2:19 child;—abs. עוֹלֵל 1 S 15:3 +, עוֹלָל Je 6:11; 9:20; usually pl. עוֹלְלִים ψ 8:3, עֹלְלִים Jb 3:16, עוֹלָלִים La 4:4 Jo 2:16; cstr. עֹלְלֵי La 2:20; sf. עֹלָלַיִךְ ψ 137:9, עֹלָלֶיהָ Mi 2:9 +, עֹלְלֵיהֶם 2 K 8:2 +, etc.;—child Mi 2:9 La 2:19, 20; 4:4; + יוֹנֵק (sometimes disting. from men and women), 1 S 15:3; 22:19 ψ 8:3 Je 44:7 La 2:11 Jo 2:16, ‖ בַּחוּרִים Je 6:11; 9:20; ‖ בָּנִים ψ 17:14 (heirs of father); dashed in pieces (רטשׁ) by for 2 K 8:12; Ho 14:1; Na 3:10; Is 13:16, cf. ψ 137:9 (נִפֵּץ); taken captive La 1:5; stillborn Jb 3:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: children (13); a child (2); child (2).

## In the verses

[Job 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.16/#tree)

א֤וֹכְנֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗ים לֹא־רָ֥אוּ אֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* or like a.miscarriage hidden not was.I? like children \[who\].not they.have.seen light

*JPS 1917:* Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.

[Psalms 137:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.9/#tree)

אַשְׁרֵ֤י ׀ שֶׁיֹּאחֵ֓ז וְנִפֵּ֬ץ אֶֽת־עֹ֝לָלַ֗יִךְ אֶל־הַסָּֽלַע׃

*Word for word:* how.blessed! \[is the.one\].who.he.will.seize and he.will.smash (et) children your to the rock

*JPS 1917:* Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5768.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5768/): 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).