'Child' in the Bible

Then Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for [she said] "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him."

And when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a child in his likeness, according to his image. And he called his name Seth.

And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael.

And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, "{Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old}, or {can Sarah bear a child at ninety}?"

Then Yahweh said to Abraham, "What [is] this [that] Sarah laughed, saying, 'Is it indeed true [that] I will bear a child, now [that] I have grown old?'

And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave [it] to Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba.

And when the water was finished from the skin, she put the child under one of the bushes.

And he said, "Take your son, your only child, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains where I will tell you."

And he said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the boy; do not do anything to him. For now I know that you are {one who fears} God, since you have not withheld your son, your only child, from me."

And he said, "I swear by myself, declares Yahweh, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only child,

And it happened [that] at her labor one [child] put out a hand. And the midwife took [it] and tied a crimson thread on his hand saying, "This [one] came out first."

And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger [brother], the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.'

so that you will tell in the ears of your child and {your grandchild} that I dealt harshly with [the] Egyptians and [so that you will tell about] my signs that I have done among them, and so you will know that I [am] Yahweh."

"When your child asks you in the future, {saying}, 'What [is the meaning of] the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Yahweh our God commanded for you?'

Then you shall say to your child, 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand.

An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even [to] the tenth generation none {of his descendants} may come into the assembly of Yahweh.

Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and behold his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and dancing. She [was] his only child; he did not have a son or daughter except her.

And Naomi took the child and she put him on her bosom and became his nurse.

She {made a vow} and said: "O Yahweh of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the misery of your female servant, and will remember me, and not forget your female servant, and will give to your female servant {a male child} then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and a razor will never pass over his head."

So then, go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that is his! You must not spare him, but kill both man and woman, both child and nursing infant, both ox and sheep, both camel and donkey.'"

And {he put to the sword} Nob, the city of the priests, from man to woman, from child to infant, and ox and donkey and sheep; [all] {to the sword}.

So for Michal the daughter of Saul, she had no child until the day of her death.

Then Nathan went to his house, and Yahweh struck the child that the wife of Uriah bore for David, and he became ill.

It happened on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants of David [were] afraid to tell him that the child [was] dead, for they said, "Look, when the child [was] alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to our voice. How can we tell him, 'The child [is] dead'? He may do [something] evil."

When David saw that his servants [were] whispering together, he realized that the child [was] dead. Then David said to his servants, "[Is] the child dead?" And they said, "He [is] dead."

Then his servants said to him, "What [is] this thing that you have done? While the child [was] alive, you fasted and wept; [now] that the child has died, you get up and eat food!"

He said, "When the child [was] still alive, I fasted and I wept because I thought, 'Who knows? Yahweh may have mercy on me that the child will live.'

Then the king said, "Divide the living child into two, and give half to the one and half to the other."

Then the woman whose son [was] the living one spoke to the king because her compassion was aroused for her son, and she said, "Please, my lord, give her the living child, but certainly do not kill him!" The other one [was] saying, "As for me, so for you! Divide [him]!"

Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to her, and do not kill him; she [is] his mother."

As for you, get up. Go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.

He stretched himself out on the child three times and called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, please let the life of this child return within him."

Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned within him, and he lived.

Elijah then took the child and brought him down from the upper room to the house and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, "Look, your son [is] alive."

The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father [and] to the reapers.

Then he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his palms on his palms. As he bent down over him, the flesh of the boy became warm.

[He] feeds on [the] barren, [who] does not have a child, and does no good to [the] widow.

what [is] a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?

Ah, Yahweh, I [am] indeed your servant; I am your servant, the child of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.

Rather I have soothed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like the weaned child [is] my soul with me.

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,

My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

My child, do not walk in their way. Keep your foot from their paths,

My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,

My child, do not forget my instruction, and may your heart guard my commands.

Do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, my child. Do not be weary of his reproof

My child, may they not escape from your {sight}; may you keep sound wisdom and prudence.

Listen, my child, take my sayings, and [the] years of your life shall be great.

My child, be attentive to my words; to my sayings incline your ear.

My child, be attentive to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear;

Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,

do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into {the palm of your neighbor's hand}: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.

My child, keep [the] commandment of your father, and do not disregard [the] instruction of your mother.

My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

He who gathers in the summer [is] a child who is prudent; he who sleeps at the harvest [is] a child who brings shame.

A wise child [hears] the discipline of a father, but a scoffer does not listen to a rebuke.

He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him {gives him} discipline.

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and in the midst of brothers he will share his inheritance.

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire.

He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, [is] a child who causes shame and brings reproach.

Cease to listen to instruction, my child, {and you will stray} from sayings of knowledge.

Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.

My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad--even me!

You, my child, hear and be wise, and direct your heart on the road

My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.

My child, eat honey, for [it is] good, and the dripping of the honeycomb [is] sweet to your taste.

Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, and I will answer him who reproaches me [with] a word.

He who keeps instruction [is] a child of understanding, but the companion of gluttons will shame his father.

As for a rod and reproof, they will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced [by] his mother.

Who has ascended [to] heaven and come down? Who has gathered [the] wind in the hollow of his hand? Who has wrapped water in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What [is] his name and what is the name of his child? For [surely] you know.

That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, {he has nothing to leave to him}.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look! the virgin [is] with child and she is about to give birth [to] a son, and she shall call his name 'God with us.'

For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Can a woman forget her suckling, [refrain] from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, but I, I will not forget you!

For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like [a woman who] bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: "Woe is me, for I am becoming tired before killers."

O daughter of my people, gird yourself [with] sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony [as for] an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Cursed be the man who brought the news [to] my father, {saying}, "A child is born to you, a son!" and he made him very glad.

Ask please and see whether a male can bear a child. Why [do] I see every strong man [with] his hands on his loins like a woman giving birth? And [why] are all [their] faces changed to paleness?

[Is] Ephraim my dear son, or [the] child of [my] delight? For {as often as} I have earnestly spoken against him, I still remember him. {Therefore} my bowels are turbulent for him, surely I will have compassion on him," {declares} Yahweh.

So then, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Why [are] you doing great harm to {yourselves}, to cut off for yourselves man and woman, child and suckling, from the midst of Judah, to not leave over for yourselves a remnant,

My eyes have {spent all their tears}; {my stomach} is in torment, {my heart} is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in [the] public squares of a city.

"{What do you mean by} quoting this proverb about the land of Israel, {saying}, 'The fathers, they ate unripe fruit, and the teeth of the child became blunt.'

And at [the] end of [some] years they will make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make a peace treaty, but {she will not retain her position of power}, and his offspring will not endure, and she will be given up, she and her attendants and her child supporting her, in those times.

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses, and we will say no more, "Our God," to the work of our hands because in you [the] fatherless child finds mercy.

For my people they cast lots, and {they traded} the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank [it].

And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

Therefore he will give them up until the time of she who is with child has given birth. And the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

" 'I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as [one] grieves bitterly over a firstborn.