עוֹלֵל
ʻôwlêl
Meaning
“child”
BDB child, boy
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11 books · uncommon
Hebrew Bible
First appears: 1 Samuel 15:3
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עוֹלֵל
8 books
1 Samuel 15:3
מֵֽ/עֹלֵל֙
Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
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2 Kings 8:12
וְ/עֹלְלֵי/הֶ֣ם
Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.
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Job 3:16
כְּ֝/עֹלְלִ֗ים
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.
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Isaiah 13:16
וְ/עֹלְלֵי/הֶ֥ם
Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
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Jeremiah 6:11
עוֹלָל֙
Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
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Lamentations 1:5
עוֹלָלֶ֛י/הָ
Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
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Hosea 13:16
עֹלְלֵי/הֶ֣ם
Samaria will bear her guilt; For she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open."
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Joel 2:16
עֽוֹלָלִ֔ים
Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, And the bride out of her chamber.
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