Lexicon
עוּל
ul
H5764
H:N-M Hebrew

infant

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Hebrew
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ul denotes a very young child in the Isaiah clauses, while one supplied occurrence is tagged as a preposition.

The noun occurrences describe a very young child: one is held in a mother's compassion comparison, and another marks the brief span of an infant's days. A further supplied occurrence is tagged as a preposition in a clause about taking an orphan from the breast, so its precise contribution cannot be isolated from the translation.

Senses in use

  1. Very young child in life and care · dominant

    In Isaiah 49:15, the masculine singular construct form occurs in the question of whether a woman can forget the child she nurses; the APB renders the clause "Can a woman forget her nursing child." In Isaiah 65:20, the same supplied noun form appears in the statement that there will no longer be "an infant of days," contrasting an infant's short days with a person reaching a hundred years.

  2. Prepositional occurrence in an orphan-taking clause · occasional

    In Job 24:9, the supplied surface form is tagged as a preposition, not as a noun. It occurs in the clause about snatching an orphan from the breast; the APB renders, "They snatch the orphan from the breast," but does not make this form's particular contribution clear.

In the Anselm Project Bible: For the noun occurrences, the APB presents the surrounding clauses with "nursing child" in Isaiah 49:15 and "an infant of days" in Isaiah 65:20. In Job 24:9, the translation gives the whole orphan-taking clause, but its whole-verse wording leaves the tagged preposition's contribution unclear.

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