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# זָרַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2229

**pour forth in floods** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pour forth in floods [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2229/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָרַם: vb. pour forth in floods, flood away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2229/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pour forth in floods, flood away (Assyrian zarâmu, overwhelm, VR 36, 57 c DlPr73 & in ZimBP119)— Pf. 2 ms. sf. זְרַמְתָּם ψ 90:5 thou floodest them with rain, sweepest them (men) away. Pf. 3 pl. זֹ֫רְמוּ מַ֫יִם עָבוֹת ψ 77:18 the cloud masses (Che) poured forth water.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: you (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 90:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.5/#tree)

זְ֭רַמְתָּם שֵׁנָ֣ה יִהְי֑וּ בַּ֝בֹּ֗קֶר כֶּחָצִ֥יר יַחֲלֹֽף׃

*Word for word:* you flood.them sleep they.are in the morning like (the) grass \[which\].it.sprouts.up

*JPS 1917:* Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2229.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2229/): 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).