Jastrow: גּוֹלֶם

גּוֹלֶם m. (b. h. גֹּלֶם, גלם) a rolled up, shapeless mass, whence 1) lump, a shapeless or lifeless substance. Y. Nidd. III, 50ᵈ and the other limbs of the embryo look כמין ג׳ מצומתים like a lump, squeezed together. Gen. R. s. 14 העמידו ג׳ He made him stand, a large, lifeless mass. Ib. s. 24 ג׳ בראו וכ׳ He formed him into a huge body, which extended from one end &c. Ib. (ref. to Ps. CXXXIX, 16) ג׳ שראו עיניך (read גֹּולָמִים) the embryos which Thy eyes have seen, have all been recorded (preordained) &c.; Pesik. R. s. 23; a. fr.—Pesik. R. s. 33 גלומי היו (read גְּלוּמִין or גולמין) they were (hard) lumps (blocks). —2) unfinished matter, a vessel wanting finishing, opp. פשוט plain surface, forming no receptacle. Snh. 22ᵇ אשה ג׳ היא ואינה וכ׳ woman (unmarried) is an unfinished vessel, and she makes a covenant with (cares for) none but him who made her a vessel.—Pl. גֹּולָמִים, גֳּלָ׳, constr. גֹּולְמֵי. Kel. XII, 6 ג׳ כלי מתכות unfinished metal vessels, v. defin. Ḥull. 25ᵃ; Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. II, 10.—Ib. VII, 12 גֹלָמִין (ed. Zuck. גלמי) pumpkins in their natural shape, opp. to חתוכין ומנוקבין.—Sifré Num. 158 כלים ולא גלומים (Yalk. ib. 786 גֹּולְמִין) ‘vessels’ which means finished vessels but not half-finished.—Trnsf. uneducated, unrefined. Ab. V, 7. —3) body. Pl. as above. Sifré Num. 131; Yalk. ib. 771 the spear entered בשני ג׳ both bodies.