עַלְמָה
ʻalmâh · H5959 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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girl, young woman
A girl of marriageable age
ExamplesGenesis 24:43 behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the young unmarried woman who comes out to draw water, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”;
Exodus 2:8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.
Psalm 68:25 The singers went on, the musicians after them, In the midst of the young women beating tambourines.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יָצָאto go out 1
- תָּפַףto beat (one's) breast 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אָהַבto love 1
- הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָרֶהpregnant 1
- תָּוֶךְmiddle 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- παρθένος parthénos · G3933 · virgin, young woman, chaste
- Greek παρθένος renders Hebrew עַלְמָה in passages emphasizing virginal status (notably Isaiah 7:14's LXX translation), establishing it as the standard Greek equivalent for this specific semantic register of young unmarried woman.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- People001001003
- עַלְמָה denotes a young woman of marriageable age, as in Genesis 24:43's "the young unmarried woman who comes out to draw water" and Proverbs 30:19's "the way of a man with a virgin."
- Sing002004001009006
- This domain reflects the word's connection to a musical-notation term built on the same root (compare עֲלָמוֹת, "Alamoth," עֲלָמוֹת (ʻĂlâmôwth, H5961), used of a soprano/maidens' voice register), part of its broader range beyond the citations shown here.
- Musical Instruments001003001001013
- This domain likewise reflects that same musical-notation connection (compare 1 Chronicles 15:20's "according to Alamoth"), part of its broader range beyond the citations shown here.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5959. almah עַלְמָה noun feminine young woman (ripe sexually; maid or newly married); —…
עַלְמָה noun feminine young woman (ripe sexually; maid or newly married); — ׳ע Gen 24:43 (J), Exo 2:8 (E), Pro 30:19; Isa 7:14; plural עֲלָמוֺת Psa 68:26; Son 1:3; Son 6:8; עַלעֲֿלָמוֺת to (the voice of) young women, either literally, or of soprano or falsetto of boys: 1Ch 15:20; Psa 9:1 (read לַבֵּן עַלעֲֿלָמוֺת [for לַבֵּן עַלמֿוּת], 'voce virginea a pueris decantandum,' Thes), Psa 46:1; Psalm 48:15 (read עַלעֲֿלָמוֺת [for עַלמֿוּת]; translated probably to Psa 49:1).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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