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# עָלֶמֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5964

**Alameth** — used 3 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

Alameth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5964/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָלֶ֫מֶת: n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5964/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:36; 9:42, עָלָ֑מֶת 7:8; 𝔊 Σαλαμαιθ, Γαλεμαθ, Αλαμωθ, etc. n.pr.loc. (= עַלְמוֹן q.v.) 1 Ch 6:45 Baer Ginsb (van d. H. עַלֶּמֶת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Alemeth (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.36/#tree)

וְאָחָז֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־יְהוֹעַדָּ֔ה וִיהֽוֹעַדָּ֗ה הוֹלִ֛יד אֶת־עָלֶ֥מֶת וְאֶת־עַזְמָ֖וֶת וְאֶת־זִמְרִ֑י וְזִמְרִ֖י הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־מוֹצָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and Ahaz he.fathered (et) Jehoaddah and Jehoaddah he.fathered (et) Alemeth and (et) Azmaveth and (et) Zimri and Zimri he.fathered (et) Moza

*JPS 1917:* And Ahaz begot Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah begot Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begot Moza;

[1 Chronicles 9:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.42/#tree)

וְאָחָז֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־יַעְרָ֔ה וְיַעְרָ֗ה הוֹלִ֛יד אֶת־עָלֶ֥מֶת וְאֶת־עַזְמָ֖וֶת וְאֶת־זִמְרִ֑י וְזִמְרִ֖י הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־מוֹצָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and Ahaz he.fathered (et) Jarah and Jarah he.fathered (et) Alemeth and (et) Azmaveth and (et) Zimri and Zimri he.fathered (et) Moza

*JPS 1917:* And Ahaz begot Jarah; and Jarah begot Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begot Moza.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5964.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5964/): 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).