Lexical Definition

‎גַּלְמוּד‎ galmûwd (gal-mood') solitary ^H:A
probably by prolonged from ‎גָּלַם‎

desolate, solitary.

• sterile (as wrapped up too hard)
• figuratively, desolate

1) hard, barren, harsh, bleak
1a) harsh, bleak (of a company of wicked men)
1b) barren (of women)

See Greek: θάνατος · χήρα

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎גַּלְמוּד‎ adjective hard, barren (Late Hebrew id. lonely NHWB; Arabic rock, stony (of land); Aramaic ‎גַּלְמוּדָה‎ compare Ba^{NB 208}) — ‎׳‎‎ג‎ Job 3:7 + 2 t. Job; feminine ‎גַּלְמוּדָה‎ Isa 49:21 — hard, barren, unproductive, mostly figurative: Job 15:34 of company of wicked men, where probably a substantive see De Di; Job 30:3 through want and famine (they are) stiff (lifeless; RV gaunt); of exiled Zion as bereaved and barren woman Isa 49:21 so of night of Job's birth Job 3:7.

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