Boy
עֲוִילStrong’s H5759avil (a-vil)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avil is the Hebrew word usually translated “young boys” and “young boys their”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.”
Meaning
- Young male or man or boy, boy
How it's translated
- young boys 1
- young boys their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עֲוִיל avil · boy
young male or man or boy, boy
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “boy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOY, noun
[Latin puer for puger, for we see by puella, that r is not radical. So the Gr. probably is contracted, for the derivative verb, forms.]
All definitions and other forms of “boy”
BOY, verb transitive
To treat as a boy
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.