Genesis 21:7
And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
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Suck
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Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
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4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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יָנַק
yânaq · yaw-nak'
13 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
to suck; causatively, to give milk
Strong's KJV usage: milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 21:7Strong's last: Joel 2:16
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thēlázō · thay-lad'-zo
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to suckle, (by implication) to suck
Strong's KJV usage: :--(give) suck(-ling).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:19Strong's last: Luke 23:29
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And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
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suck
SUCK, verb transitive [Latin sugo.]
1. To draw with the mouth; to draw out, as a liquid from a cask, or milk from the breast; to draw into the mouth. To suck is to exhaust the air of the mouth or of a tube; the fluid then rushes into the mouth or tube by means of the pressure of the surrounding air.
2. To draw milk from with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother or dam, or the breast.
3. To draw into the mouth; to imbibe; as, to suck in air; to suck the juice of plants.
4. To draw or drain.
Old ocean suck'd through the porous globe.
5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to absorb.
6. To inhale.
To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb.
To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction.
To suck up, to draw into the mouth.
SUCK, verb intransitive To draw by exhausting the air, as with the mouth, or with a tube.
1. To draw the breast; as, a child, or the young of any animal, is first nourished by sucking.
2. To draw in; to imbibe.
SUCK, noun The act of drawing with the mouth.
1. Milk drawn from the breast by the mouth.
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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