H5768Noun, masculine20 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- 1 Samuel 15:3מֵעֹלֵל
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
- 2 Kings 8:12וְעֹלְלֵיהֶם
“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
- Job 3:16כְּעֹלְלִים
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Psalm 8:2עוֹלְלִים
From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
- Jeremiah 6:11עוֹלָל
But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
- Lamentations 1:5עוֹלָלֶיהָ
Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.