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Genesis 24:43

הִנֵּה אָנֹכִי נִצָּב עַל עֵין הַ מָּיִם וְ הָיָה הָ עַלְמָה הַ יֹּצֵאת לִ שְׁאֹב וְ אָמַרְתִּי אֵלֶיהָ הַשְׁקִינִי נָא מְעַט מַיִם מִ כַּדֵּךְ
behold myself standing upon the eye of the Dual-Waters, and he has become the Veiled-Maiden819 Going-Out820 to draw. And I have said toward her, cause me to drink, now, a little bit of dual-waters from your jar.
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Strong’s #5959. Almah, young woman (ripe sexually; maid or newly married); — Genesis 24:43 (J), Exodus 2:8 (E), Proverbs 30:19; Isaiah 7:14; plural עֲלָמוֺת Psalm 68:26; Songs 1:3; Songs 6:8; עַלעֲֿלָמוֺת to (the voice of) young women, 1 Chronicles 15:20; Psalm 9:1. Feminine counterpart word to elem, young man, which is used in 1 Sam 17:56 and 20:22. The Hebrew root alam (#5956) means something kept out of sight, veiled, hidden, concealed. The masculine elem (#5958) would infer the same hidden man that Peter wrote about to the “women”:

“…but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible of the meek and tranquil which is, in the face of the God, very costly.” 1 Peter 3:4 literal