'Boy' in the Bible

But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.

And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,

When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

Then he said to Jether, his oldest son, Up! Put them to death. But the boy did not take out his sword, fearing because he was still a boy.

And Samson said to the boy who took him by the hand, Let me put my hand on the pillars supporting the house, so that I may put my back against them.

And Saul said to David, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and have a fight with him: for you are only a boy, and he has been a man of war from his earliest days.

And when the Philistine, taking note, saw David, he had a poor opinion of him: for he was only a boy, red-haired and good-looking.

And I will send my boy to have a look for the arrow. And if I say to him, See, the arrow is on this side of you; take it up! then you may come; for there is peace for you and no evil, by the living Lord.

But if I say to the boy, See, the arrow has gone past you: then go on your way, for the Lord has sent you away.

Now in the morning, Jonathan went out into the fields at the time he had said to David, and he had a little boy with him.

And he said to the boy, Go and get the arrow I let loose from my bow. And while the boy was running, he sent an arrow past him.

And when the boy came to the place where the arrow was, Jonathan, crying out after the boy, said, Has it not gone past you?

And Jonathan went on crying out after the boy, Be quick, do not keep waiting about, go quickly. And Jonathan's boy got the arrow and came back to his master.

But the boy had no idea what was going on; only Jonathan and David had knowledge of it.

And Jonathan gave his bow and arrows to the boy, and said to him, Take these and go back to the town.

And when the boy had gone, David came from his secret place by the hill, and falling to the earth went down on his face three times: and they gave one another a kiss, weeping together, till David's grief was the greater.

But a boy saw them, and gave word of it to Absalom: so the two of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim who had a water-hole in his garden, and they went down into it.

And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

Hadad, being still a young boy, went in flight to Egypt, with certain Edomites, servants of his father;

Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;

And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.

And Jesus gave orders to the unclean spirit, and it went out of him: and the boy was made well from that hour.

And when the days of the feast came to an end and they were going back, the boy Jesus was still in Jerusalem, but they had no knowledge of it:

And while he was coming, he was pushed violently down and twisted by the evil spirit. But Jesus gave sharp orders to the unclean spirit, and made the boy well, and gave him back to his father.

And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.

The man said, Sir, come down before my boy is dead.

And while he was going down, his servants came to him and said, Your boy is living.

There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

And they took the boy in, living, and were greatly comforted.