Strong’s H5759 · Hebrew

עֲוִיל
ʻăvîyl
av-eel'

Definition

a babe

Etymology

from H5764 (עוּל);

Where the KJV renders it

  • young child
  • little one

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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