KJV dictionary & concordance
A nursing infant or very young child still receiving milk from the breast.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Deuteronomy 32:25
Complete exact-word concordance
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
The sword without, and terrour within shall destroy both the yong man, and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray haires.
1611 marginal noteHeb. from the chambers.
1611 marginal noteHeb. bereaue.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Now goe, and smite Amalek, and vtterly destroy all that they haue, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, oxe and sheepe, camell and asse.
Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
Therefore now thus saith the LORD the God of hostes, the God of Israel, Wherefore commit ye this great euill against your soules, to cut off from you man and woman, childe and suckling out of Iudah, to leaue you none to remaine.
1611 marginal noteHebr. out of the midst of Iudah.
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Historical English dictionary sources
An infant at the breast.
A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
