Youth
עֶ֫לֶםStrong’s H5958elem (e-lem)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Elem is the Hebrew word usually translated “youth” and “young man”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.”
Meaning
- Young man
How it's translated
- the youth 1
- to the young man 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
עֶ֫לֶם elem · youth
young man
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.