Youth
עָלוּמִיםStrong’s H5934alum (a-lum)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Alum is the Hebrew word usually translated “youth his”, “youthful vigor his” and “youth your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.”
Meaning
- Youth, youthful, vigour
How it's translated
- youth his 2
- youthful vigor his 1
- youth your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 33:25His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
- Psalms 89:45The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
- Isaiah 54:4Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Hebrew dictionary
עָלוּמִים alum · youth
youth, youthful, vigour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “youth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
YOUTH, noun
Yuth. [G.]
- The part of life that succeeds to childhood.
- A young man.
- A young person, male or female.
- Young persons, collectively.
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.