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title: אַלְקוּם — band of soldiers · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַלְקוּם (510), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: band of soldiers. BDB 1906: band of soldiers. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַלְקוּם

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«אַלְקוּם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **band of soldiers** — 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:** 510 · **BDB:** אַלְקוּם

### Glosses

\[who\].a.band.of.soldiers (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

band of soldiers [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/510/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

band of soldiers [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/510/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** band of soldiers (= Ar. القَومُ, people; so E. Castle, Thes etc., cf. CheJob \& Sol. 175; \> text. error for אֱלֹהִים Hi cf. Now) Pr 30:31.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַלְקוּם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/510/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 30:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.31/)

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זַרְזִ֣יר מָתְנַ֣יִם אוֹ־תָ֑יִשׁ וּ֝מֶ֗לֶךְ אַלְק֥וּם עִמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.rooster of.loins or a.male.goat and a.king \[who\].a.band.of.soldiers \[is\].with him

*JPS 1917:* The greyhound; the he-goat also; and the king, against whom there is no rising up.

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