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title: עוּל — sucking child · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עוּל (5764), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: sucking child. BDB 1906: n.m. sucking child, suckling. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עוּל

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«עוּל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sucking child** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5764 · **BDB:** עוּל²

### Glosses

a.sucking.child (1); child (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sucking child [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5764/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. sucking child, suckling [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5764/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sucking child, suckling;—cstr. ע׳ יָמִים Is 65:20 a suckling of days, i.e. a few days old; sf. עוּלָהּ 49:15 (‖ בֶּז־בִּטְנָהּ).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (17 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עוּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5764/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 49:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.15/)

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הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח אִשָּׁה֙ עוּלָ֔הּ מֵרַחֵ֖ם בֶּן־בִּטְנָ֑הּ גַּם־אֵ֣לֶּה תִשְׁכַּ֔חְנָה וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹ֥א אֶשְׁכָּחֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* will she.forget? a.woman child her.sucking from having.compassion.on the.child her.womb her also these they.will.forget and I not I will.forget.you

*JPS 1917:* Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.

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[Isaiah 65:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.20/)

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לֹא־יִֽהְיֶ֨ה מִשָּׁ֜ם ע֗וֹד ע֤וּל יָמִים֙ וְזָקֵ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יְמַלֵּ֖א אֶת־יָמָ֑יו כִּ֣י הַנַּ֗עַר בֶּן־מֵאָ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַ֣חוֹטֶ֔א בֶּן־מֵאָ֥ה שָׁנָ֖ה יְקֻלָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.be from there again a.sucking.child of.days and an.old.\[person\] who not he.will.complete (et) days his (dm) the.young man a.son of.one.hundred year\[s\] he.will.die and the.\[one who\].misses a.son of.one.hundred year\[s\] he.will.be.cursed

*JPS 1917:* There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man, that hath not filled his days; for the youngest shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

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