רוּם
rûwm · room
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, ([idiom] a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), [phrase] presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- 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)
the head, the highest › to fasten and establish › water, chaos, the mighty deep
The head, the highest that works to fasten and establish of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רוּם 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
190 occurrences · 190 OT · 0 NT · 152 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- exalt5 · 7%
- shall be exalted5 · 7%
- lift up4 · 6%
- be thou exalted4 · 6%
- gave4 · 6%
- and tall3 · 4%
- i will exalt3 · 4%
- ye shall offer3 · 4%
- be exalted3 · 4%
- to lift up3 · 4%
- shall be lifted up3 · 4%
- which they offer2 · 3%
- exalteth2 · 3%
- ye shall offer up2 · 3%
- lift not up2 · 3%
- and he shall take2 · 3%
- and he shall exalt2 · 3%
- i will extol2 · 3%
- high2 · 3%
- and against whom hast thou exalted2 · 3%
- is exalted2 · 3%
- i will be exalted2 · 3%
- is high2 · 3%
- be lifted up2 · 3%
- with an high2 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.