Solitary
גַּלְמוּדStrong’s H1565galmud (gal-mud)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Galmud is the Hebrew word usually translated “barren”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.”
Meaning
- Hard, barren, harsh, bleakharsh, bleak (of a company of wicked men) · barren (of women)
How it's translated
- barren 3
- and barren 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 15:34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
- Job 30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- Isaiah 49:21Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
Hebrew dictionary
גַּלְמוּד galmud · solitary
1) hard, barren, harsh, bleak 1a) harsh, bleak (of a company of wicked men) 1b) barren (of women)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “solitary” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOL'ITARY, adjective
[Latin solitarius, from solus, alone.]
- Living alone; not having company.
- Retired; remote from society; not having company, or not much frequented; as a solitary residence or place.
- Lonely; destitute of company; as a solitary life.
- Gloomy; still; dismal. Job 3:7“Let that night be solitary let no joyful voice come therein” Job 3:7
All definitions and other forms of “solitary”
- Single; as a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.
- In botany, separate; one only in a place; as a solitary stipule.
SOL'ITARY, noun
One that lives alone of in solitude; a hermit; a recluse.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.