Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
forsaken
Usage: widowed, forsaken, forsaken as a widow
Alman means “forsaken” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G488 — antimetreo (“measure again”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H488 אַלמָן (alman) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. alman (al-mawn') adj. 1. discarded (as a divorced person) [prolonged from H481 in the sense of bereavement] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include forsaken. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
alman (al-mawn') adj. 1. discarded (as a divorced person) [prolonged from H481 in the sense of bereavement] KJV: forsaken. Root(s): H481
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H488. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
forsaken
Usage: widowed, forsaken, forsaken as a widow
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render alman, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H488.
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H488, grouped by book.
Alman (Strong's H488) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "forsaken". alman (al-mawn') adj. 1. discarded (as a divorced person) [prolonged from H481 in the sense of bereavement]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H488 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H488 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as forsaken. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.