Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5958
עֶלֶם
elemeh'-lem
youth
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻelem
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5958is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5958
properly, something kept out of sight, i.e. a lad
The King James renders it: young man, stripling.
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
elem is rendered "youth". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 17:56“Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.
1 Samuel 17:56הָעָֽלֶם׃ ס
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the youth1
- to the young man1
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 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- הָעָֽלֶם׃ ס1
- לָעֶ֔לֶם1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
1 Samuel
two uses
“Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.
- הָעָֽלֶם׃ סhaalemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the youth
But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
- לָעֶ֔לֶםlaelempreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the young man
The letters
Gematria 140· 700 mispar gadol
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.