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# עַלְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5961

**young woman** — 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 woman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5961/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַלְמָה: n.f. young woman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5961/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. young woman (ripe sexually; maid or newly married);—ע׳ Gn 24:43 (J), Ex 2:8 (E), Pr 30:19 Is 7:14; pl. עֲלָמוֹת ψ 68:26 Ct 1:3; 6:8; עַל־עֲלָמוֹת to (the voice of) young women, either lit., or of soprano or falsetto of boys: 1 Ch 15:20 ψ 9:1 (read עַל־עֲלָמוֹת לַבֵּן \[for עַל־מוּת לַבֵּן, ‘voce virginea a pueris decantandum,’ Thes), 46:1; 48:15 (read עַל־עֲלָמוֹת \[for עַל־מוּת\]; tr. prob. to 49:1).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: alamoth (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 46:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.46.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.46.1/#tree)

לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ לִבְנֵי־קֹ֑רַח עַֽל־עֲלָמ֥וֹת שִֽׁיר׃

*Word for word:* to the choirmaster of the.sons of.Korah on alamoth a.song

*JPS 1917:* For the Leader; a Psalm of the sons of Korah; upon Alamoth.

[1 Chronicles 15:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.20/#tree)

וּזְכַרְיָ֨ה וַעֲזִיאֵ֜ל וּשְׁמִֽירָמ֤וֹת וִֽיחִיאֵל֙ וְעֻנִּ֣י וֶֽאֱלִיאָ֔ב וּמַעֲשֵׂיָ֖הוּ וּבְנָיָ֑הוּ בִּנְבָלִ֖ים עַל־עֲלָמֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah with lyres on alamoth

*JPS 1917:* and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries set to Alamoth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5961.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5961/): 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).