Lexicon
עָלוּמִים
a.lum
H5934
H:N-M Hebrew

youth

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Hebrew
Language

a.lum denotes youth, especially as a remembered period tied to bodily vitality or past shame.

The attested use denotes youth as a period remembered in relation to shame, bodily condition, or earlier days: Isaiah 54:4 speaks of forgetting its shame, while Job 20:11 and Job 33:25 place it alongside the body and a return to former days. Psalm 89:46 contains the form, though the supplied APB rendering does not make its contribution clear.

Senses in use

  1. Youth as a remembered stage of life · dominant

    All supplied tokens are common masculine plural construct nouns. In Isaiah 54:4 the APB renders the clause about forgetting “the shame of your youth”; in Job 20:11 it associates youth with bones and lying down in dust, and in Job 33:25 it places youth beside renewed flesh and a return to earlier days. Psalm 89:46 also contains the form, but the supplied APB rendering does not isolate its contribution.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term explicitly as “youth” in Isaiah 54:4, Job 20:11, and Job 33:25, connecting it with shame, bones, flesh, and earlier days. In Psalm 89:46, the supplied translation does not visibly reflect the term.

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