חִירָם
Chîyrâm · khee-rawm'
Chiram or Chirom, the name of two Tyrians
Lexicon
Derivation: or חִירוֹםlemma חִירֹם missing vav, corrected to חִירוֹם; another form of H2361 (חוּרָם);
Chiram or Chirom, the name of two Tyrians
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Hiram, Huram.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- 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 separate and protect › the hand that works › the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To separate and protect of the hand that works of the head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חִירָם 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
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and hiram7 · 29%
- hiram3 · 13%
- to hiram2 · 8%
- so hiram2 · 8%
- now hiram2 · 8%
- for hiram1 · 4%
- and it came to pass, when hiram1 · 4%
- between hiram1 · 4%
- and hiram's1 · 4%
- which hiram1 · 4%
- also of hiram1 · 4%
- of hiram1 · 4%
- and huram1 · 4%
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.