Infant
עוּלStrong’s H5764ul
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ul is the Hebrew word usually translated “sucking child her” and “sucking child of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.”
Meaning
- Suckling, sucking child
How it's translated
- sucking child her 1
- a sucking child of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
עוּל ul · infant
suckling, sucking child
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “infant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IN'FANT, noun
[Latin infans; in and fans, speaking, fari, to speak.]
- A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe.
- In law, a person under the age of twenty one years, who is incapable of making valid contracts.
All definitions and other forms of “infant”
IN'FANT, adjective
Pertaining to infancy or the first period of life.
- Young; tender; not mature; as infant strength.
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.