עָלוּם
ʻâlûwm · H5934 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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youth
State in which humans are still relatively young; associated with strength but also with reckless living
ExamplesJob 20:11 “His bones are full of his youthful strength, But it lies down with him in the dust.
Job 33:25 Let his flesh become fresher than in youth, Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;
Psalm 89:45 You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 3
- ךְyour 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- יוֹםday, time 2
- בֹּשֶׁתshame 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- יַלְדוּת yaldûwth · H3208 · youth
- יַלְדוּת (“childhood, youth”) and עָלוּם (ʻâlûwm, H5934) (“youth”) denote the same life-stage and could substitute in context.
- שַׁחֲרוּת shachărûwth · H7839 · black hair, youth
- Both lexemes denote the same abstract concept, "youth" as a period or state of life, and are genuine same-language near-synonyms.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Young002001001073
- עָלוּם denotes youth, as in Psalm 89:45's "the days of his youth" and Job 20:11's "his bones are full of his youthful vigor."
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5934. alumim [עֲלוּמִים] noun plural abstract youth, youthful vigour; — only suffix…
[עֲלוּמִים] noun plural abstract youth, youthful vigour; — only suffix עֲלוּמָיו Job 20:11 Qr (Kt עֲלוּמוֺ); עֲלוּמָיו Psa 89:46; Job 33:25; עֲלוּמַיִךְ Isa 54:4.
III. עלם (√ of following, meaning dubious; compare Late Hebrew עוֺלָם (chiefly world, age); MI7, 10 עלם, Phoenician id., Aramaic עָֽלְמָא, , Nabataean עלם, Palmyrene עלמא; Arabic creation, world, etc.; Ethiopic aevum, saeculum, etc.; according to Thes and others from I. עלם the hidden, compare Köii. 1, 87; LagBN 115 compare quadril. primitive waters; Ew§ 77 a compare Ethiopic time [√ Di923]; BaZMG xliv (1890), 685 compare Assyrian ullûti, ullâ [ullânu, remote time], compare DlHWB 65 JenZA vii).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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