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# גָּלַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1563

**wrap up** — 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

wrap up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1563/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּלַם: vb. wrap up, fold, fold together [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1563/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. wrap up, fold, fold together (NH id., Aramaic in deriv.)— Impf. וַיִּגְלֹם 2 K 2:8 וַיִּקַּח אֵלִיָּהוּ אֶת־אַדַּרְתּוֹ וַיִּגְלֹם.

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: he folded it up (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.8/#tree)

וַיִּקַּח֩ אֵלִיָּ֨הוּ אֶת־אַדַּרְתּ֤וֹ וַיִּגְלֹם֙ וַיַּכֶּ֣ה אֶת־הַמַּ֔יִם וַיֵּחָצ֖וּ הֵ֣נָּה וָהֵ֑נָּה וַיַּעַבְר֥וּ שְׁנֵיהֶ֖ם בֶּחָרָבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Elijah (et) cloak his and he.folded.it.up and he.struck (et) the waters and they.were.divided hither and hither and they.passed.over the.two of.them on the.dry ground

*JPS 1917:* And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1563.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1563/): 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).