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# עֶלֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5958

**young man** — used 2 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

young man [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5958/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶ֫לֶם: n.m. young man [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5958/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. young man;—ע׳ abs. 1 S 20:22, הָעָ֑לֶם 17:56; ע׳ prob. also v 42; 16:12 (for MT עִם) Gr KrenkelZAW ii (1882), 309 Bu HPS.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 17:56](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.56/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.56/#tree)

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ שְׁאַ֣ל אַתָּ֔ה בֶּן־מִי־זֶ֖ה הָעָֽלֶם׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.said the king ask you son of.whom? this \[is\].the young.man

*JPS 1917:* And the king said: 'Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.'

[1 Samuel 20:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.22/#tree)

וְאִם־כֹּ֤ה אֹמַר֙ לָעֶ֔לֶם הִנֵּ֥ה הַחִצִּ֖ים מִמְּךָ֣ וָהָ֑לְאָה לֵ֕ךְ כִּ֥י שִֽׁלַּחֲךָ֖ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and if thus I.will.say to the.young man there! the arrows \[are\].from you and beyond go (dm) he has.sent.you.away Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* But if I say thus unto the boy: Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way; for the LORD hath sent thee away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5958.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5958/): 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).