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# אַלְקוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H510

**band of soldiers** — 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

band of soldiers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/510/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַלְקוּם: band of soldiers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/510/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** band of soldiers (= Ar. القَومُ, people; so E. Castle, Thes etc., cf. CheJob & Sol. 175; \> text. error for אֱלֹהִים Hi cf. Now) Pr 30:31.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.31/#tree)

זַרְזִ֣יר מָתְנַ֣יִם אוֹ־תָ֑יִשׁ וּ֝מֶ֗לֶךְ אַלְק֥וּם עִמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.rooster of.loins or a.male.goat and a.king \[who\].a.band.of.soldiers \[is\].with him

*JPS 1917:* The greyhound; the he-goat also; and the king, against whom there is no rising up.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/510.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/510/): 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).