Quick Definition
Alamoth
Biblical Persons & Places
Alamoth
A musical term
A musical term; called Alamoth (עֲלָמוֹת)
Strong's Definition
properly, girls, i.e. the soprano or female voice, perhaps falsetto
Derivation: plural of H5959 (עַלְמָה);
KJV Usage: Alamoth.
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) young women, soprano?
1b) a term in psalm heading-Alamoth
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עֲלָמוֹת (a.la.mot) — Alamoth.
young women, soprano? a term in psalm heading-Alamoth
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f
Muth labben, Death of the Son meaning unknown; possibly to be analyzed as עַל־מוּת לַבֵּן "on (= to the tune of) Death of the Son"
1 PSA 9:1 MT עַלמוּת לַבֵּן | NJPS "almuth labben" RSV NRSV REB ESV "Muth labben" NIV CEV "Death of the Son"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
עַלְמָה n.f. young woman (ripe sexually; maid or newly married) base