ALAMOTH, Psa_46:1-11 (title), 1Ch_15:20.See Psalms.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
(Psalm 46) Title, 1Ch_15:20; i.e., after the virgin manner; a soprano key in music, like the voice of virgins. Others interpret it an instrument played on by virgins, like our old English virginal.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Al'amoth. (virgins). Psa_46:1 Title; 1Ch_15:20. Some interpret it to mean a musical instrument, and others a melody.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
al?a-mōth. See MUSIC.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Alamoth
(Hebrew Alamoth', עֲלָמוֹת, virgins, as often; Sept. ἀλημώθ v. r.
ἀλαιμὠθ and ἀλιμώθ,Vulg. arcana), a musical term used in 1Ch_15:20, apparently to denote that the choristers should sing in the female voice, i.e. our treble, or soprano. So Lafage (Hist. Gen. de la Musique) renders it chant superieur ou a 'loctave" (comp. Mendelssohn, Introd. to Psalms). The word occurs in the same form and signification in the inscription of Psalms 46 (where the Sept. and Vulg. translate κρύφια, arcana, i.e. secrets, as if indicative of the contents of the Psalm), and twice again in nearly the same form (עִלְמוּת), namely, in the inscription of Psalms 9 (where it has the same sense, but is differently rendered by our translators upon Muth-," Sept. again ὑπὲρ τῶν κρυφίων, Vulg. occultis), and in Psalm 48:15 (where the context requires the meaning forever, but our version has unto death," Sept. correctly εἰς τοὺς αἰώνας, Vulg. in soecula). SEE MUTH-LABBEN. Forkel (Gesch. der Musik, 1, 142) understands virgin measures (Germ. Jungfernweise), i e. in maidenly style, but against the propriety of the usage. SEE PSALMS.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.