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# עַלְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5959

**young woman** — used 7 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/1506/5959/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַלְמָה: n.f. young woman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5959/#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, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: woman (3); young women (3); a young woman (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.26/#tree)

קִדְּמ֣וּ שָׁ֭רִים אַחַ֣ר נֹגְנִ֑ים בְּת֥וֹךְ עֲ֝לָמ֗וֹת תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* they.went.in.front singers \[were\].behind musicians among young.women \[who.were\].playing.tambourines

*JPS 1917:* The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels.

[Song of Songs 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.8/#tree)

שִׁשִּׁ֥ים הֵ֙מָּה֙ מְּלָכ֔וֹת וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים פִּֽילַגְשִׁ֑ים וַעֲלָמ֖וֹת אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].sixty they queens and eighty concubines and young.women there.\[is\].not number

*JPS 1917:* There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5959/): 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).