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# אַלְמָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H488

**forsaken** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

forsaken [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/488/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַלְמָן: adj. widowed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/488/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. widowed, of Israel Je 51:5 (sq. מֵאֱלֹהִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] forsaken (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.5/#tree)

כִּ֠י לֹֽא־אַלְמָ֨ן יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל וִֽיהוּדָה֙ מֵֽאֱלֹהָ֔יו מֵֽיְהוָ֖ה צְבָא֑וֹת כִּ֤י אַרְצָם֙ מָלְאָ֣ה אָשָׁ֔ם מִקְּד֖וֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not \[is\].forsaken Israel and Judah from God its from Yahweh of.hosts (dm) land their it.is.full guilt from the.holy.\[one\] of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* For Israel is not widowed, nor Judah, of his God, of the LORD of hosts; for their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/488.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/488/): 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).