Bible Dictionary: Sucking

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suck.

2. (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.

Strong's Hebrew

5764. ul -- a sucking child, suckling
... 5763, 5764. ul. 5765 . a sucking child, suckling. Transliteration: ul Phonetic
Spelling: (ool) Short Definition: infant. ... sucking child, infant. ...
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2461. chalab -- milk
... cheese, milk, sucking. From the same as cheleb; milk (as the richness of kine) -- +
cheese, milk, sucking. see HEBREW cheleb. 2460, 2461. chalab. 2462 . ...
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3243. yanaq -- to suck
... nursling (1), suck (4), sucks (1). give milk, nursing mother, give, make
to sucking child,. A primitive root; to suck; causatively ...
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Library

Verse 1. Who Will Give Thee to Me for a Brother, Sucking the ...
... CHAPTER VIII. VERSE 1. Who will give thee to me for a brother, sucking
the breasts of. my mother! that I might find thee without ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/verse 1 who will give.htm

How this Sacred Repose is Practised.
... You will see them, with a deep soft murmur, hold and squeeze it with their mouths,
sucking so eagerly that they even put their mother to pain; but after the ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter ix how this sacred.htm

Flee Away, My Beloved, and be Thou Like to a Roe or to a Young ...
... When, she says, sucking the breasts of my mother, she means sucking out, drying
up and extinguishing in me the appetites and passions, which are the breasts ...
/.../guyon/song of songs of solomon/14 flee away my beloved.htm

How by Holy Complacency we are Made as Little Infants at Our ...
... her breasts like two cabinets rich in the treasures of sweet milk, armed with as
many weapons to conquer the dear little baby as it makes its attacks in sucking ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter ii how by holy.htm

Perfect in Parts, Imperfect in Degrees.
... It is the great mistake of many Sunday-schools to make sucking lambs do the work
of ewes; of neglecting to feed the new-born babes with spiritual knowledge and ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/x perfect in parts imperfect.htm

They Shall be Called the Children of God
... In the body there are sucking veins, which draw the meat into the stomach
and concoct it there. So faith is the sucking vein which ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/19 they shall be called.htm

The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour (Nt Apocrypha)
... sun. The child, enwrapped in swaddling clothes, was sucking the breast
of the Lady Mary His mother, being placed in a stall. And ...
/.../the arabic gospel of the infancy of the saviour/the arabic gospel of the.htm

V. ...
... These words are, indeed, figurative; for he did not mean literal milk, or
literal sucking, as he does not speak of a literal birth. ...
/.../the epistles of st peter and st jude preached and explained/chapter ii v .htm

Semi-Parasitism.
... But after supporting themselves for a brief period they fix curious sucking discs
into the stem and branches of adjacent plants And after a little experimenting ...
/.../drummond/natural law in the spiritual world/semi-parasitism.htm

The Upbringing of Jewish Children
... As the word implies, the "olel" is still "sucking"; but it is no longer satisfied
with only this nourishment, and is "asking bread," as in Lamentations 4:4 ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 7 the upbringing of.htm

Thesaurus

Sucking (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced,
as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. ...Sucking (7 Occurrences). ...
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Sucking-lamb (1 Occurrence)
Sucking-lamb. Sucking, Sucking-lamb. Suckle . Multi-Version
Concordance Sucking-lamb (1 Occurrence). 1 Samuel 7:9 And ...
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Vampire
... 1. (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed
to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons ...
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Suck (22 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb;
as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground. ...
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Horse-leech (1 Occurrence)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Occurs only in Proverbs 30:15 (Hebrews `alukah);
the generic name for any blood-sucking annelid. There ...
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Nurse (23 Occurrences)
... In Numbers 11:12 Moses asks whether he has to take charge of the Israelites "as
a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child." The same word is found in 2 Kings ...
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Nursling (3 Occurrences)
... Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth
for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. ...
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Nursing (14 Occurrences)
... In Numbers 11:12 Moses asks whether he has to take charge of the Israelites "as
a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child." The same word is found in 2 Kings ...
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Nursing-father (2 Occurrences)
... have I brought them forth, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom,
as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which thou ...
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Lamb (124 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 9:3; 14:10-25). (2.) Hebrews taleh, a young sucking lamb (1 Samuel
7:9; Isaiah 65:25). In the symbolical language of Scripture ...
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Bible Concordance

Sucking (7 Occurrences)

Numbers 11:12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
(KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 32:25 Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.
(See RSV)

1 Samuel 7:9 Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Song of Songs 8:1 Who doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,
(YLT)

Isaiah 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Isaiah 49:15 "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Subtopics

Sucking

Related Terms

Sucking-lamb (1 Occurrence)

Vampire

Suck (22 Occurrences)

Horse-leech (1 Occurrence)

Nurse (23 Occurrences)

Nursling (3 Occurrences)

Nursing (14 Occurrences)

Nursing-father (2 Occurrences)

Lamb (124 Occurrences)