To nurse
עוּלStrong’s H5763ul
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ul is the Hebrew word usually translated “nursing”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.”
Meaning
- To give suck, suckle, nurse(Qal) giving suck (participle)
How it's translated
- nursing 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- Genesis 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 6:7Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
- 1 Samuel 6:10And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
- Psalms 78:71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
- Isaiah 40:11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Hebrew dictionary
עוּל ul · to nurse
1) to give suck, suckle, nurse 1a) (Qal) giving suck (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “nurse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NURSE, noun
- A woman that has the care of infants, or a woman employed to tend the children of others.
- A woman who suckles infants.
- A woman that has the care of a sick person.
- A man who has the care of the sick.
All definitions and other forms of “nurse”
- A person that breeds, educates or protects; hence, that which breeds, brings up or causes to grow; as Greece, the nurse of the liberal arts.
- An old woman; in contempt.
- The state of being nursed; as, to put a child to nurse
- In composition, that which supplies food; as a nurse-pond.
NURSE, verb transitive
- To tend, as infants; as, to nurse a child.
- To suckle; to nourish at the breast.
- To attend and take care of in child-bed; as, to nurse a woman in her illness.
- To tend the sick; applied to males and females.
- To ffed; to maintain; to bring up. Isaiah 60:4
- To cherish; to foster; to encourage; to promote growth in.
- To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
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.