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# יַעְלָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3281

**Jalam** — used 4 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

Jalam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3281/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַעְלָם²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3281/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Edomite Gn 36:5, 14, 18 = 1 Ch 1:35, Ιεγλομ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jalam (4).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.35/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י עֵשָׂ֑ו אֱלִיפַ֛ז רְעוּאֵ֥ל וִיע֖וּשׁ וְיַעְלָ֥ם וְקֹֽרַח׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Esau \[were\].Eliphaz Reuel and Jeush and Jalam and Korah

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam and Korah.

[Genesis 36:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.18/#tree)

וְאֵ֗לֶּה בְּנֵ֤י אָהֳלִֽיבָמָה֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת עֵשָׂ֔ו אַלּ֥וּף יְע֛וּשׁ אַלּ֥וּף יַעְלָ֖ם אַלּ֣וּף קֹ֑רַח אֵ֣לֶּה אַלּוּפֵ֞י אָֽהֳלִיבָמָ֛ה בַּת־עֲנָ֖ה אֵ֥שֶׁת עֵשָֽׂו׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.sons of.Oholibamah the.wife of.Esau chief Jeush chief Jalam chief Korah these \[were\].the.chiefs of.Oholibamah the.daughter of.Anah the.wife of.Esau

*JPS 1917:* And these are the sons of Oholibamah Esau's wife: the chief of Jeush, the chief of Jalam, the chief of Korah. These are the chiefs that came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3281.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3281/): 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).