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# רוּם

Biblical Aramaic

**height** — used 9 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

height [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5d5_5bc_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רוּם²: n.m. height [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5d5_5bc_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 4:7 height;—sf. רוּמֵהּ, of temple Ezr 6:3, image Dn 3:1, tree in vision 4:7, 8, 17.

### Jastrow 1903

רוּם ³: height haughtiness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5d5_5bc_5dd/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** height. Targ. Y. Deut. XI, 18 על ר׳ ידכון on the highest point of your arm (v. גּוֹבַהּ). Targ. Is. XIV, 12, sq. Targ. O. Num. XXIII, 22; a. fr.—Y. Snh. X, 29ᵃ הוה ארונא … לר׳ וכ׳ the ark carried the priests high up and cast them down to the ground. B. Bath. IV, 2; ib. 61ᵃ, v. עוּמְקָא I. Lam. R. to IV, 15 ברוּמְהוֹן (some ed. ברוֹמֵיהֶן, pl.) of their high stature, v. שׁוּף I ch.; Lev. R. s. 16 ברומחין (corr. acc.); a. e.—Pl. רוֹמִין, רוֹמֵי. Sot. 48ᵇ, v. שׁוּט I ch.—V. מְרוֹמָא I. haughtiness. Targ. Ps. LXXIII, 8.—V. רָמוּתָא.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: height (5); lifting up (2); it rose up (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.7/#tree)

וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֑י חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית וַאֲל֥וּ אִילָ֛ן בְּג֥וֹא אַרְעָ֖א וְרוּמֵ֥הּ שַׂגִּֽיא׃

*Word for word:* and the.visions of my.head on bed my seeing I.was and lo! a.tree in the.midst of the.land and height its \[was\].great

*JPS 1917:* Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

[Daniel 4:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.8/#tree)

רְבָ֥ה אִֽילָנָ֖א וּתְקִ֑ף וְרוּמֵהּ֙ יִמְטֵ֣א לִשְׁמַיָּ֔א וַחֲזוֹתֵ֖הּ לְס֥וֹף כָּל־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* it.grew.great the tree and it.grew.strong and height its it.reached to the heavens and the.sight of.it \[was\].to the.end of.all the land

*JPS 1917:* The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5d5_5bc_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5d5_5bc_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).