גַּלְמוּדgalmûwd
hard, barren, unproductive, mostly figurative (Job 3:7; Isaiah 49:21; Job 15:34; Job 30:3)
Pronunciation: gal-mood' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1565
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Job 3:7 Let that night be childless. Let it have no joy.
- Job 15:34 For the godless are barren. Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.
- Job 30:3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.
- Isaiah 49:21 Then you will think to yourself, ‘Who has given me all these descendants? For most of my children were killed, and the rest were carried away into exile. I was left here all alone. Where did all these people come from? Who bore these children? Who raised them for me?’”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).