רָם
Râm · rawm
Ram, the name of an Arabian and of an Israelite
Lexicon
Derivation: active participle of H7311 (רוּם); high;
Ram, the name of an Arabian and of an Israelite
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Ram. See also H1027 (בֵּית הָרָם).
Letters
- 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)
the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep
The head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָם 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
7 occurrences · 7 OT · 0 NT · 5 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and ram3 · 43%
- of ram2 · 29%
- ram1 · 14%
- were, ram1 · 14%
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.