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title: עַלְמָה — young woman · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עַלְמָה (5959), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: young woman. BDB 1906: n.f. young woman. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עַלְמָה

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«עַלְמָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **young woman** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 5959 · **BDB:** עַלְמָה

### Glosses

woman (3); young.women (3); a.young.woman (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

young woman [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5959/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. young woman [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5959/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. young woman (ripe sexually; maid or newly married);—ע׳ Gn 24:43 (J), Ex 2:8 (E), Pr 30:19 Is 7:14; pl. עֲלָמוֹת ψ 68:26 Ct 1:3; 6:8; עַל־עֲלָמוֹת to (the voice of) young women, either lit., or of soprano or falsetto of boys: 1 Ch 15:20 ψ 9:1 (read עַל־עֲלָמוֹת לַבֵּן \[for עַל־מוּת לַבֵּן, ‘voce virginea a pueris decantandum,’ Thes), 46:1; 48:15 (read עַל־עֲלָמוֹת \[for עַל־מוּת\]; tr. prob. to 49:1).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עַלְמָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5959/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 68:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.26/)

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קִדְּמ֣וּ שָׁ֭רִים אַחַ֣ר נֹגְנִ֑ים בְּת֥וֹךְ עֲ֝לָמ֗וֹת תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* they.went.in.front singers \[were\].behind musicians among young.women \[who.were\].playing.tambourines

*JPS 1917:* The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels.

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[Song of Songs 6:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.8/)

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שִׁשִּׁ֥ים הֵ֙מָּה֙ מְּלָכ֔וֹת וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים פִּֽילַגְשִׁ֑ים וַעֲלָמ֖וֹת אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].sixty they queens and eighty concubines and young.women there.\[is\].not number

*JPS 1917:* There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number.

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