'Boy' in the Bible
Lamech said to his wives,“Adah and Zillah,Listen to my voice,You wives of Lamech,Give heed to my speech,For I have killed a man for wounding me;And a boy for striking me;
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.
He returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?”
Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now comes the reckoning for his blood.”
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
For behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and no razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”
But he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and now you shall not drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
Then Manoah entreated the Lord and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again that he may teach us what to do for the boy who is to be born.”
Then Samson said to the boy who was holding his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”
Then they slaughtered the bull, and brought the boy to Eli.
For this boy I prayed, and the Lord has given me my petition which I asked of Him.
Then Elkanah went to his home at Ramah. But the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.
Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord, as a boy wearing a linen ephod.
The Lord visited Hannah; and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before the Lord.
Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.
Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli. And word from the Lord was rare in those days, visions were infrequent.
So the Lord called Samuel again for the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli discerned that the Lord was calling the boy.
And she called the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
that Hadad fled to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy.
Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”
“Let the day perish on which I was to be born,And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.
for before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;And a little boy will lead them.
“Before she travailed, she brought forth;Before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy.
Cursed be the man who brought the newsTo my father, saying,“A baby boy has been born to you!”And made him very happy.
“They have also cast lots for My people,Traded a boy for a harlotAnd sold a girl for wine that they may drink.
And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured at once.
They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.
After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, “He is dead!”
and as they were returning, after spending the full number of days, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. But His parents were unaware of it,
And a man from the crowd shouted, saying, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only boy,
While he was still approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground and threw him into a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy and gave him back to his father.