'Child' in the Bible
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.
And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
"Not so," claimed the other woman. "The living child is my son, and the dead one is yours." But the first woman said, "Not so! The dead child is your son and the living one is my son." This is what they testified before the king.
Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.
And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
See, I will send evil on you and put an end to you completely, cutting off from Ahab every male child, him who is shut up and him who goes free in Israel;
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Related Words
- Child's (24 instances in 12 translations)
- Child-conductor (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Child-conductors (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Childbearing (6 instances in 11 translations)
- Childbirth (29 instances in 10 translations)
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- Childishness (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Childless (37 instances in 12 translations)
- Childlessness (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Childlike (4 instances in 2 translations)
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- Children's (38 instances in 12 translations)
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- Maid-child (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Man-child (17 instances in 8 translations)
- Man-childless (1 instance in 5 translations)
- Men-children (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Women-children (1 instance in 1 translation)
Bible Theasaurus
- Baby (47 instances)
- Branch (67 instances)
- Child (442 instances)
- Daughter (342 instances)
- Descendant (129 instances)
- Heir (33 instances)
- Infant (22 instances)
- Innocent (124 instances)
- Kid (51 instances)
- Minor (10 instances)
- Youngster (5 instances)
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