gal.mud describes being left without companions, offspring, celebration, or inhabited company in the scenes where it occurs.

The attested uses describe isolation or emptiness: people endure poverty and famine, a night lacks rejoicing, an assembly is desolate, and a bereaved, barren woman says she was left alone.

1. Isolation and desolate emptiness · dominant

   The masculine singular adjective occurs in scenes of deprivation or desolation: in Job 30:3 the APB renders people as “Solitary in poverty and in famine,” and in Job 3:7 it renders a night as “solitary” and without triumphing. In Job 15:34 the same form stands in the clause whose APB rendering says the godless assembly is “desolate”; Isaiah 49:21 uses the feminine singular form in the woman's statement that she was “left alone” after bereavement, barrenness, exile, and rejection.

   Job 30:3Job 3:7Job 15:34Isaiah 49:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the surrounding clauses with “Solitary,” “desolate,” and “left alone.” These renderings confirm the verses' shared setting of isolation and emptiness rather than establish separate lexical senses.