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Strong's #2361 - חוּרָם

Transliteration

Chûwrâm

Phonetics

khoo-rawm'

Origin

probably from (H2353)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Masculine

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Huram = “noble born”

1) son of Bela and grandson of Benjamin

2) king of Tyre allied with David and Solomon; alternate spelling for ‘Hiram’

3) a chief architect of Solomon’s temple; alternate spelling for ‘Hiram’

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (12)

1 Chronicles 1

2 Chronicles 11

NAS (10)

1 Chronicles 1

2 Chronicles 9

HCS (13)

1 Chronicles 2

2 Chronicles 11

BSB (10)

1 Chronicles 1

2 Chronicles 9

ESV (9)

1 Chronicles 1

2 Chronicles 8

WEB (12)

1 Chronicles 1

2 Chronicles 11

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

חוּרָם (perhaps “noble,” “free-born,” from חֹר with the termination ־ָם), Huram, pr.n.

(1) of a king of Tyre, cotemporary with Solomon, 2 Chronicles 2:2 elsewhere חִירָם 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15 [“called in Greek Εἴρωμος, Jos. c. Ap. i. 17, 18”].

(2) of a Tyrian artificer, 2 Chronicles 4:11 elsewhere חִירוֹם 1 Kings 7:40 חִירָם 2 Ch. loc. cit. כתיב; חוּרָם אָבִי 2 Chronicles 2:12 and חוּרָם אָבִיז 4:16 (where either the one reading or the other must have been corrupted); [however, Gesenius explains the readings as they stand in Thes. i. page 458].

(3) a Benjamite, 1 Chronicles 8:5.

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List of Word Forms

וְחוּרָֽם׃ וחורם׃ חוּרָ֑ם חוּרָ֔ם חוּרָ֤ם חוּרָ֥ם חוּרָ֨ם חוּרָם֒ חוּרָם֙ חורם לְחוּרָ֥ם לחורם chuRam ḥū·rām ḥūrām lə·ḥū·rām lechuRam ləḥūrām vechuRam wə·ḥū·rām wəḥūrām