The story
- Hebrew · borrowed fromעֲלָמוֹת“women of childbearing age”
- English todayalamoth
Borrowed from Hebrew עֲלָמוֹת (‘ălāmōṯ, “women of childbearing age”), feminine plural of עֶלֶם (èlem, “man of marriageable age”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.