גֹּ֫לֶם
fetus
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1564 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
גלם (gôlem) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “fetus.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Psalms, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Its lone occurrence is Psalms 139:16. From the same root come גלם, גלום and גלמוד. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1564 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Substance yet being unperfect 1×
- American Standard Version: Unformed 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Unformed body 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Unformed substance 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1564 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1564 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1564 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1564 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- embryo, fetus
Word origin
Derived from גלם (gâlam) (H1563) — to wrap.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גָּלַם
- 1. to roll up, to unshape. Denom. גּוֹלֶם.
- 2. (denom. of גּוֹלֶם) to calculate in a lump, fix an arbitrary price, opp. דקדק to calculate exactly. Sifra B’har, Par. 6, ch. IX; B. Kam. 113ᵇ יכול יִגְלוֹם עליו you might think, he (the redeemer of the Jewish slave in possession of a gentile) was permitted to force an arbitrary price upon him (the gentile); [Rashi: (גלם to double) he (the gentile owner) might be permitted to ask an exorbitant price].—Part. pass. גָּלוּם, f. גְּלוּמָה 1) wrapt up. Sot. 42ᵃ, v. גַּלְמוּד.—2) roughly shaped, unfinished. Pl. גְּלוּמִים, גְּלוּמוֹת. Sifré Num. 158, v. גּוֹלֶם. Ex. R. s. 30 מצות גלומות rough laws (containing no details, assigning no reasons; Var. lect. גולמות, גּוֹלָמִיּוֹת, fr. גּוֹלָמִי).
גְּלַם
- 1. to roll, wrap up. Denom. גְּלִים, גְּלִימָא I, גּוּלְמָא.
- 2. to arch, cave. Denom. גְּלִימָא II.
גְּלָם
- , v. גְּלִים
גֹּלֶם
- , v. גּוֹל׳
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1564, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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