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אַלְמֹן

ʼalmôn · H489 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Widowhood

    The state of having lost one's husband, requiring widow's clothing and associated with disgrace

    Examples

    Isaiah 47:9 “But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great power of your spells.

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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אַלְמֹן names widowhood itself, the condition of loss the prophet warns will come suddenly upon Babylon.
Word family 10 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָלַם ʼâlam · H481 · to be dumb, to be unable to speak, to make sheaves · 9×אַלְמָנָה ʼalmânâh · H490 · widow · 54×אִלֵּם ʼillêm · H483 · dumb, unable to speak · 6×אֲלֻמָּה ʼălummâh · H485 · sheaf · 5×אַלְמָנוּת ʼalmânûwth · H491 · widowhood · 4×אַלְמֹנִי ʼalmônîy · H492 · certain (person or place) · 3×אֵלֶם ʼêlem · H482 · silence · 2×אַלְמָן ʼalmân · H488 · forsaken · 1×אַלְמֹןʼalmôn · H489אוּלָם ʼûwlâm · H197 · porch, portico, vestibule · 0×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H489. almon אַלְמֹן noun [masculine] widowhood, figurative of Babylon Isa 47:9 (||…
H489. almon
אַלְמֹן noun [masculine] widowhood, figurative of Babylon Isa 47:9 (|| שְׁכוֺל, compare Isa 47:9; see BaNB 59).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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