'Boy' in the Bible

But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."

Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

So he said to his servants, "You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you."

"Do not harm the boy!" the angel said. "Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me."

returned to his brothers, and said, "The boy isn't there! And I, where can I go?"

Reuben said to them, "Didn't I say to you, 'Don't sin against the boy,' but you wouldn't listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!"

Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die -- we and you and our little ones.

We said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.'

"So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us -- his very life is bound up in his son's life.

When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.'

"So now, please let your servant remain as my lord's slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's pain."

opened it, and saw the child -- a boy, crying! -- and she felt compassion for him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.

but Hannah did not go up with them. Instead she told her husband, "Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on."

Once the bull had been slaughtered, they brought the boy to Eli.

I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him.

Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of Eli the priest.

Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord's sanctuary.

Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.

Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli's supervision. Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.

Then the Lord called Samuel a third time. So he got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me!" Eli then realized that it was the Lord who was calling the boy.

She named the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

But Saul replied to David, "You aren't able to go against this Philistine and fight him! You're just a boy! He has been a warrior from his youth!"

When the Philistine looked carefully at David, he despised him, for he was only a ruddy and handsome boy.

The king said, "Find out whose son this boy is!"

When I send a boy after them, I will say, "Go and find the arrows." If I say to the boy, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them,' then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.

But if I say to the boy, "Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,' get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.

Hadad, who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father's Edomite servants and headed for Egypt.

Take ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."

"As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

So Jeroboam's wife got up and went back to Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, "O Lord, my God, please let this boy's breath return to him."

Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, "See, your son is alive!"

The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

Now, run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?'" She told Gehazi, "Everything's fine."

He got up on the bed and spread his body out over the boy; he put his mouth on the boy's mouth, his eyes over the boy's eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy's palms. He bent down over him, and the boy's skin grew warm.

Before she goes into labor, she gives birth! Before her contractions begin, she delivers a boy!

Cursed be the man who made my father very glad when he brought him the news that a baby boy had been born to him!

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that moment.

The boy answered, 'I will not.' But later he had a change of heart and went.

The father went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, 'I will, sir,' but did not go.

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

Immediately the father of the boy cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!"

It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, "He is dead!"

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

As the boy was approaching, the demon threw him to the ground and shook him with convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?"

They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.