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# אֲלֻמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H485

**sheaf** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sheaf [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/485/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲלֻמָּה: n.f. sheaf [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/485/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sheaf, in Joseph’s dream Gn 37:7(×4) (E) sq. sf. אֲלֻמָּתִי, pl. אֲלֻמִּים, אֲלֻמֹּתֵיכֶם; also ψ 126:6 אֲלֻמֹּתָיו (in fig. of ret. from captivity).

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sheaves (3); sheaf (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 126:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.126.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.126.6/#tree)

הָ֘ל֤וֹךְ יֵלֵ֨ךְ ׀ וּבָכֹה֮ נֹשֵׂ֪א מֶֽשֶׁךְ־הַ֫זָּ֥רַע בֹּֽ֬א־יָב֥וֹאבְרִנָּ֑ה נֹ֝שֵׂ֗א אֲלֻמֹּתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* going he.will.go and weeping carrying (the).bag of.(the) seed certainly.(come) he.will.come with a.shout.of.joy carrying sheaves his

*JPS 1917:* Though he goeth on his way weeping that beareth the measure of seed, he shall come home with joy, bearing his sheaves.

[Genesis 37:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.7/#tree)

וְ֠הִנֵּה אֲנַ֜חְנוּ מְאַלְּמִ֤ים אֲלֻמִּים֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה וְהִנֵּ֛ה קָ֥מָה אֲלֻמָּתִ֖י וְגַם־נִצָּ֑בָה וְהִנֵּ֤ה תְסֻבֶּ֙ינָה֙ אֲלֻמֹּ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וַתִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֖יןָ לַאֲלֻמָּתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and there! we \[were\].binding sheaves in the.middle of the.field and there! it.arose sheaf my and also it.stood.upright and there! they.gathered.round sheaves your and they.bowed.down to sheaf my

*JPS 1917:* for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and bowed down to my sheaf.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/485.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/485/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).