עַלְמוֹן
Almon
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Almon’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5960 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.
Joshua 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.
עלמון (ʻAlmôwn) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Almon.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. It clusters heavily in Joshua, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Joshua 21:18. For the data behind this summary, explore 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5960 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
- Joshua 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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Almon 1×
- American Standard Version: Almon 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Almon 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Almon 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5960 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5960 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5960 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5960 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- Almon = "concealed"
- a town in Benjamin allotted to the priests
Word origin
n.pr.loc. (cf. Sab. n.pr. עלמן Hal192);—priestly city in Benj. Jos 21:18 (P), 𝔊 Γαμαλα, A Αλμων, 𝔊L Ελμων; = עָלֶמֶת in ‖ 1 Ch 6:45 (𝔊 Γαλεμεθ, 𝔊L Αλαμωθ); mod. ʿAlmît, c. 1 hour NE. of Jerusalem, v. BuhlGeogr. 175.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עלם (ʻâlam) (H5956) — to hide.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5960, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- עולם ʻôwlâm H5769 forever
- עלום ʻâlûwm H5934 youth
- עלם ʻelem H5958 young man
- תעלמה taʻălummâh H8587 secret
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יעלם Yaʻlâm H3281 Jaalam
- עילם ʻÊylâm H5867 Elam
- עלמת ʻÂlemeth H5964 Alemeth
- עלמן דבלתימה ʻAlmôn Diblâthâyᵉmâh H5963 Almon-diblathaim
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Almon). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Hidden, one of the sacerdotal cities of Benjamin (Josh. 21:18), called also Alemeth (1 Chr. 6:60).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(concealed) a city within the tribe of Benjamin, with "suburbs" given to the priests. (Joshua 21:18) [Alemeth]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
hidden
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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