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# עָלוּמִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5934

**youth** — 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

youth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5934/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲלוּמִים: n.pl.abstr. youth, youthful vigour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5934/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pl.abstr. youth, youthful vigour;—only sf. עֲלוּמָיו Jb 20:11 Qr (Kt עֲלוּמוֹ); עֲלוּמָיו ψ 89:46 Jb 33:25; עֲלוּמַיִךְ Is 54:4.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his youth(s) (1); his youthful vigor(s) (1); vigor(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 89:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.46/#tree)

הִ֭קְצַרְתָּ יְמֵ֣י עֲלוּמָ֑יו הֶֽעֱטִ֨יתָ עָלָ֖יו בּוּשָׁ֣ה סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* you.have.cut.short the.days his.youth(s) his you.have.wrapped on him shame Selah

*JPS 1917:* The days of his youth hast Thou shortened; Thou hast covered him with shame.

[Job 33:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.25/#tree)

רֻֽטֲפַ֣שׁ בְּשָׂר֣וֹ מִנֹּ֑עַר יָ֝שׁ֗וּב לִימֵ֥י עֲלוּמָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* it.grows.fresh flesh his more than.youth he.returns to the.days his.youthful.vigor(s) his

*JPS 1917:* His flesh is tenderer than a child's; he returneth to the days of his youth;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5934/): 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).