Pupil
תַּלְמִידStrong’s H8527talmid (tal-mid)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Talmid is the Hebrew word usually translated “pupil”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.”
Meaning
- Scholar
How it's translated
- pupil 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
תַּלְמִיד talmid · pupil
scholar
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pupil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PU'PIL, noun
[Latin pupilla, dim. of pupa, pupus. See Pup.]
All definitions and other forms of “pupil”
PU'PIL, noun
[Latin pupillus, dim. of pupa, pupus. See Pup.]
- A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
- A ward; a youth or person under the care of a guardian.
- In the civil law, a boy or girl under the age of puberty, that is, under 14 if a male, and under 12 if a female.
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.