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# דָּרוֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1864

**south** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

south [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1864/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּרוֹם²: n.m. south times [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1864/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. south (poet. & late) (on formation cf. Ol§ 216 a Sta§ 295)—דָּרוֹם Jb 37:17 + 16 times + Ez 40:27 b. 28 b (del. 𝔖 Co in v 27 b; AB 𝔖 Co in v 28 b—south, Ez 42:18 (over against קָדִים, צָפוֹן, יָם); 12 times more in Ezek.) of wh. Co del. 2, cf. supr.) 21:2 (= תֵּימָנָה and נֶגֶב); דֶּרֶךְ הַדּ׳ toward south 40:24(×2), 27, read also דֶּרֶךְ הַדּ׳ 42:10 for ד׳ הַקָּדִים 𝔊 Ke Co; שַׁעַר הַדּ׳ south gate 40:\[27\], 28, \[28\] cf. Co supr., 40:44 (opp. צפון; also קדים), v 45 (opp. צפון) 42:12 = לַדָּ׳ 41:11 (opp. צפון), לִשְׁכוֹת הד׳ 42:13 (opp. צפון). Elsewhere only Dt 33:23 (‖ יַם), Jb 37:17; Ec 1:6; 11:3 (both opp. צפון).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the south (10); south (5); \[the\] south (2).

## In the verses

[Job 37:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.17/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־בְּגָדֶ֥יךָ חַמִּ֑ים בְּהַשְׁקִ֥ט אֶ֝֗רֶץ מִדָּרֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* \[you\].whom clothes your \[are\].hot when is.still \[the\].earth from.\[the\] south

*JPS 1917:* Thou whose garments are warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind;

[Ezekiel 42:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.42.18/#tree)

אֵ֛ת ר֥וּחַ הַדָּר֖וֹם מָדָ֑ד חֲמֵשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת קָנִ֖ים בִּקְנֵ֥ה הַמִּדָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* (et) the.side of the.south he.measured five hundred(s) reeds by the.reed of.(the) measurement

*JPS 1917:* He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1864/): 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).