עָלַם
ʻâlam · aw-lam'
to veil from sight, i.e. conceal (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to veil from sight, i.e. conceal (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] any ways, blind, dissembler, hide (self), secret (thing).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › authority, the one who leads › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To see and know of authority, the one who leads of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָלַם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
28 occurrences · 28 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and hide3 · 11%
- and it be hid2 · 7%
- hide2 · 7%
- be hid1 · 4%
- and if it be hidden1 · 4%
- withal, and it be hid1 · 4%
- do any ways1 · 4%
- not hide1 · 4%
- to blind1 · 4%
- hid1 · 4%
- hath hid1 · 4%
- and there was nothing hid1 · 4%
- is hid1 · 4%
- seeing it is hid1 · 4%
- who is he that hideth1 · 4%
- why hidest1 · 4%
- with dissemblers1 · 4%
- before thee, our secret1 · 4%
- but he that hideth1 · 4%
- with every secret thing1 · 4%
- i will hide1 · 4%
- him; and that thou hide1 · 4%
- and have hid1 · 4%
- thou shalt be hid1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.