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# עוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5764

**sucking child** — 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

sucking child [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5764/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוּל²: n.m. sucking child, suckling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5764/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sucking child, suckling;—cstr. ע׳ יָמִים Is 65:20 a suckling of days, i.e. a few days old; sf. עוּלָהּ 49:15 (‖ בֶּז־בִּטְנָהּ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 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, 2 with the glosses (17 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 49:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.15/#tree)

הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח אִשָּׁה֙ עוּלָ֔הּ מֵרַחֵ֖ם בֶּן־בִּטְנָ֑הּ גַּם־אֵ֣לֶּה תִשְׁכַּ֔חְנָה וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹ֥א אֶשְׁכָּחֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* will she.forget? a.woman child her.sucking from having.compassion.on the.child her.womb her also these they.will.forget and I not I will.forget.you

*JPS 1917:* Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.

[Isaiah 65:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.20/#tree)

לֹא־יִֽהְיֶ֨ה מִשָּׁ֜ם ע֗וֹד ע֤וּל יָמִים֙ וְזָקֵ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יְמַלֵּ֖א אֶת־יָמָ֑יו כִּ֣י הַנַּ֗עַר בֶּן־מֵאָ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַ֣חוֹטֶ֔א בֶּן־מֵאָ֥ה שָׁנָ֖ה יְקֻלָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.be from there again a.sucking.child of.days and an.old.\[person\] who not he.will.complete (et) days his (dm) the.young man a.son of.one.hundred year\[s\] he.will.die and the.\[one who\].misses a.son of.one.hundred year\[s\] he.will.be.cursed

*JPS 1917:* There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man, that hath not filled his days; for the youngest shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5764.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5764/): 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).