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# הֲלֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1988

**hither** — used 12 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

hither [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1988/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֲלֹם: adv. of place, hither [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1988/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. of place, hither (Arabic هَلُمَّ hither!)—Ex 3:5 אַל־תִּקְרַב הֲלֹם approach not hither, Ju 18:3; 20:7 1 S 10:22; 14:16 and lo, the camp melted away וַיֵּלֶךְ וַהֲלֹם read with 𝔊 (ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν) Th We Dr הֲלֹם וַהֲלֹם hither and thither i.e. in different directions (cf. הֵנָּה וָהֵנָּה Jos 8:20), v 36, 38 Ru 2:14; עַד הֲלֹם fig. hitherto, thus far (i.e. to this point of dignity and greatness) 2 S 7:18 (= 1 Ch 17:16). ψ 73:10, if text be sound, הֲלֹם must mean thither (sc. after the persons described v 3–9); but such sense questionable; read prob. with Houb La for ישיב עמו הלם, יַשְׂבִּעֵמוֹ לָ֑חֶם satisfies them with bread: cf. Che Hup-Now. Gn 16:13 = here; but here also text is dub.: v Di. Ju 14:15 read הֲלֹם for הֲלֹא: v. הֲ 1 end.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 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: here (12).

## In the verses

[Judges 20:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.7/#tree)

הִנֵּ֥ה כֻלְּכֶ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל הָב֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם דָּבָ֥ר וְעֵצָ֖ה הֲלֹֽם׃

*Word for word:* here! of.you all O.people of.Israel give (for yourselves a.word and counsel here

*JPS 1917:* Behold, ye are all here, children of Israel, give here your advice and council.'

[Psalms 73:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.10/#tree)

לָכֵ֤ן ׀ יָשׁ֣וּב עַמּ֣וֹ הֲלֹ֑ם וּמֵ֥י מָ֝לֵ֗א יִמָּ֥צוּ לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.turns.back people his here and waters of.full they.are.drained by them

*JPS 1917:* Therefore His people return hither; and waters of fullness are drained out by them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1988.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1988/): 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).