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# גֹּלֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1564

**embryo** — 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

embryo [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1564/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֹּ֫לֶם: embryo [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1564/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] embryo (NH גּוֹלֶם, Aramaic גּוֹלְמָא, unfinished vessel), גָּלְמִי רָאוּ עֵינֶיךָ ψ 139:16 mine imperfect substance (RV) did thine eyes see.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 139:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.16/#tree)

גָּלְמִ֤י ׀ רָ֘א֤וּ עֵינֶ֗יךָ וְעַֽל־סִפְרְךָ֮ כֻּלָּ֪ם יִכָּ֫תֵ֥בוּ יָמִ֥ים יֻצָּ֑רוּ וְל֖וֹ אֶחָ֣ד בָּהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* form my.shapeless they.saw eyes your and on scroll your of.them all they.were.written days \[which\].they.were.ordained and to it one \[was\].among them

*JPS 1917:* Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance, and in Thy book they were all written — even the days that were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1564.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1564/): 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).