Strong's Lexicon

H1565

H1565 — גַּלמוּד

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewgalmuwdadjectiveOccurrences: 4TWOT: 354c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H1565
Word:גַּלמוּד
Part of Speech:adjective
Etymology:probably by prolonged from H1563
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:4
Transliteration:galmuwd
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:gal-mood'
Meaning:1. sterile (as wrapped up too hard) 2. (figuratively) desolate
KJV Renderings:desolate, solitary.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB1668

גַּלְמוּד adjective hard, barren (Late Hebrew id. lonely NHWB; Arabic [untranscribed source text 921] rock, [untranscribed source text 922] stony (of land); Aramaic גַּלְמוּדָה compare BaNB 208) — ׳ ג Job 3:7 + 2 t. Job; feminine גַּלְמוּדָה Isa 49:21 — hard, barren, unproductive, mostly figurative: Job 15:34 of company of wicked men, where probably a substantive see De Di; Job 30:3 through want and famine (they are) stiff (lifeless; RV gaunt); of exiled Zion as bereaved and barren woman Isa 49:21 so of night of Job's birth Job 3:7.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

גלמוד (gal-mood’)

Job 3:7

KJV: Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
EHCC: let that night be solitary, |

Job 15:84

EHCC: of hypocrites (shall be) desolate,
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