Joel 3:3
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
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Joel 3:3
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
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יֶלֶד
yeled · yeh'-led
1 times translated as this KJV form88 total Strong's occurrences
something born, i.e. a lad or offspring
Strong's KJV usage: boy, child, fruit, son, young man (one).
Strong's first: Joel 3:3Strong's last: Joel 3:3
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And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
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boy
BOY, noun [Latin puer for puger, for we see by puella, that r is not radical. So the Gr. probably is contracted, for the derivative verb, forms.]
A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; but in general, applied to males under ten or twelve years of age; a lad. Sometimes it is used in contempt for a young man, indicating immaturity, want of vigor or judgment.
BOY, verb transitive To treat as a boy
Rather, to act as a boy; to imitate a boy in action. The passage in Shakespeare, in which this word is found, is supposed to allude to the practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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