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title: גֹּלֶם — embryo · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֹּלֶם (1564), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: embryo. BDB 1906: embryo. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֹּלֶם

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«גֹּלֶם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **embryo** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1564 · **BDB:** גֹּ֫לֶם

### Glosses

form (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

embryo [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1564/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

embryo [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1564/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] embryo (NH גּוֹלֶם, Aramaic גּוֹלְמָא, unfinished vessel), גָּלְמִי רָאוּ עֵינֶיךָ ψ 139:16 mine imperfect substance (RV) did thine eyes see.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֹּלֶם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1564/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 139:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.16/)

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גָּלְמִ֤י ׀ רָ֘א֤וּ עֵינֶ֗יךָ וְעַֽל־סִפְרְךָ֮ כֻּלָּ֪ם יִכָּ֫תֵ֥בוּ יָמִ֥ים יֻצָּ֑רוּ וְל֖וֹ אֶחָ֣ד בָּהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* form my.shapeless they.saw eyes your and on scroll your of.them all they.were.written days \[which\].they.were.ordained and to it one \[was\].among them

*JPS 1917:* Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance, and in Thy book they were all written — even the days that were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

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