עֶלֶם
ʻelem · H5958 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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boy
Young man of the age of puberty
Examples1 Samuel 17:56 And the king said, “You then, ask whose son the youth is.”
1 Samuel 20:22 “But if I say to the youth, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ go, because the LORD has sent you away.
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
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זֶהthis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
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
- בָּחוּר bâchûwr · H970 · young man
- Standard Hebrew term for a young man or youth, frequently used in parallel with other youth terminology; both refer to males in the vigor of early adulthood.
- נַעַר naʻar · H5288 · boy, lad, youth
- Common Hebrew term for a youth or young man, spanning from boyhood through early adulthood; overlaps semantically with עֶלֶם in denoting young males.
Contrasting words 1 word
- זָקֵן zâqên · H2205 · old, elder
- Standard antonym denoting an old man or elder, the opposite end of the age spectrum from a young man or stripling.
In the other Testament 2 words
- νεανίας neanías · G3494 · young man
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew terms denoting a young man or youth; both refer to males in the stage between childhood and full adulthood.
- νεανίσκος neanískos · G3495 · young man
- Common Greek term for a young man or stripling, frequently used in LXX to translate Hebrew youth terminology; both denote males in early adulthood.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- עֶלֶם denotes a young man, as in 1 Samuel 17:56's "find out whose son this young man is" referring to David and 1 Samuel 20:22's "the young man" sent to gather arrows.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5958. elem עֶ֫לֶם noun masculine young man; — ׳ע absolute 1Sa 20:22, הָעָ֑לֶם 1Sa 17:56;…
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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