Strong’s H5958 · Hebrew
עֶלֶם
ʻelem · eh'-lem
Origin from עָלַם (H5956); (compare עַלְמָה (H5959))
Meaning properly, something kept out of sight, i.e. a lad
In the King James Version young man, stripling.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Samuel 17:56And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.
- 1 Samuel 20:22But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.