# H5959 עַלְמָה

עַלְמָה (ʻalmâh), Strong’s H5959: a lass (as veiled or private) KJV: damsel, maid, virgin.. Occurs 7 times.

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*ʻalmâh* — a lass (as veiled or private)

KJV: damsel, maid, virgin.

Occurs 7 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עַלְמָה n.f. young woman (ripe sexually; maid or newly married)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 24:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=43) — behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will…
- [Exodus 2:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=8) — Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.
- [Isaiah 7:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/7?v=14) — Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his…
- [Psalms 68:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/68?v=26) — The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, among the ladies playing with tambourines,
- [Proverbs 30:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/30?v=19) — The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way…
- [Song of Songs 1:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/song-of-songs/1?v=3) — Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
- [Song of Songs 6:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/song-of-songs/6?v=8) — There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.