αλαιμωθ <Semitic; Hellenistic period>
👉 αλαιμωθ (vv.ll. αλεμωθ, αλημωθ) – ‘an unidentified musical term’ (LXX: 1 Chr. 15.20).
🅔 A transliteration of the Biblical Hebrew form ʿălāmôṯ ‘an unidentified musical term (perh. singing in the style of young women or the name of a melody?)’; ʿălāmôṯ is a plural form of ʿalmā ‘young woman, marriageable girl’.
📖 Data: DCH: VI, 428; HALOT: 835f. Ref.: cf. GELS: 18; Simotas 1969: 22.