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# עַלְמוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5960

**Almon** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Almon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5960/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַלְמוֹן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5960/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (cf. Sab. n.pr. עלמן Hal192);—priestly city in Benj. Jos 21:18 (P), 𝔊 Γαμαλα, A Αλμων, 𝔊L Ελμων; = עָלֶמֶת in ‖ 1 Ch 6:45 (𝔊 Γαλεμεθ, 𝔊L Αλαμωθ); mod. ʿAlmît, c. 1 hour NE. of Jerusalem, v. BuhlGeogr. 175.

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 21:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.18/#tree)

אֶת־עֲנָתוֹת֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶת־עַלְמ֖וֹן וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ עָרִ֖ים אַרְבַּֽע׃

*Word for word:* (et) Anathoth and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Almon and (et) lands its.pasture cities four

*JPS 1917:* Anathoth with the open land about it, and Almon with the open land about it; four cities.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5960/): 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).