Infant
עוֹלֵלStrong’s H5768olel (o-lel)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Olel is the Hebrew word usually translated “child”, “children” and “children their”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”
Meaning
- Child, boy
How it's translated
- child 4
- children 3
- and children their 2
- children your 2
- children her 2
- from a child 1
- from child 1
- like children 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 5
- Psalms 3
- Jeremiah 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Job 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 22:19And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
- 2 Kings 8:12And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
- Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- Psalms 8:2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
- Psalms 17:14From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
- Psalms 137:9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Hebrew dictionary
עוֹלֵל olel · infant
child, boy
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.