Hebrew noun (feminine) · H485
אֲלֻמָּה
alummahal-oom-maw'
sheaf
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼălummâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H485is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H485
something bound; a sheaf
The King James renders it: sheaf.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
alummah is rendered "sheaf". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 37:7We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”
Genesis 37:7אֲלֻמִּים֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sheaf my1
- sheaves1
- sheaves his1
- sheaves your1
- to sheaf my1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֲלֻמִּים֙1
- אֲלֻמָּתִ֖י1
- אֲלֻמֹּתָֽיו׃1
- אֲלֻמֹּ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם1
- לַאֲלֻמָּתִֽי׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcfpc/Sp2mp
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfpc/Sp3ms
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
Genesis
four uses
We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”
- אֲלֻמִּים֙ʾalumimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sheaves
- אֲלֻמָּתִ֖יʾalumatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: sheaf my
- אֲלֻמֹּ֣תֵיכֶ֔םʾalumoteikhemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: sheaves your
- לַאֲלֻמָּתִֽי׃laalumatipreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to sheaf my
Psalms
one use
He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
- אֲלֻמֹּתָֽיו׃ʾalumotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sheaves his
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.