זֶרֶם
zerem · zeh'-rem
a gush of water
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2229 (זָרַם);
a gush of water
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: flood, overflowing, shower, storm, tempest.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To cut, to sustain of the head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זֶרֶם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- with the showers1 · 11%
- from storm1 · 11%
- from the storm1 · 11%
- is as a storm1 · 11%
- which as a tempest1 · 11%
- as a flood1 · 11%
- and tempest1 · 11%
- from the tempest1 · 11%
- the overflowing1 · 11%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.