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גֹּלֶם

go.lem

embryo

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Strong’s H1564Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

shapeless form1

In the text

Psalm 139:16גָּלְמִי
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[גֹּ֫לֶם] n.[m.] embryo ψ 139:16

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.