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# זֶרֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2230

**flood of rain** — used 9 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

flood of rain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2230/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זֶ֫רֶם: n.m. flood of rain, rain-storm, downpour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2230/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Hb. 3:10 flood of rain, rain-storm, downpour (Aramaic זַרְמִית id.)—abs. ז׳ Is 4:6 + 2 times; זָ֑רֶם Is 32:2; cstr. זֶרֶם Jb 24:8 + 4 times; Is 4:6 (‖ מָטָר)); ז׳ מַיִם Is 28:2 Hb 3:10; ז׳ הָרִים Jb 24:8, i.e. such as falls among mts. cf. Di; ז׳ בָּרָד Is 28:2; מַחְסֶה מִזֶּרֶם 25:4, זֶרֶם קִיר v 4 i.e. such as dashes against a wall, 32:2 (‖ רוּחַ), נֶפֶץ וָזֶרֶם וְאֶבֶן בָּרָד 30:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: a storm (3); rainstorm (3); a rainstorm (2).

## In the verses

[Job 24:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.8/#tree)

מִזֶּ֣רֶם הָרִ֣ים יִרְטָ֑בוּ וּֽמִבְּלִ֥י מַ֝חְסֶ֗ה חִבְּקוּ־צֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] rainstorm of.\[the\].mountains they.are.wet and from not shelter they.embrace \[the\].rock

*JPS 1917:* They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

[Habakkuk 3:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.10/#tree)

רָא֤וּךָ יָחִ֙ילוּ֙ הָרִ֔ים זֶ֥רֶם מַ֖יִם עָבָ֑ר נָתַ֤ן תְּהוֹם֙ קוֹל֔וֹ ר֖וֹם יָדֵ֥יהוּ נָשָֽׂא׃

*Word for word:* they have.seen.you they.writhe mountains a.storm of.water it.has.passed.over it.has.given.forth the.deep voice its height hands its it.has.lifted

*JPS 1917:* The mountains have seen Thee, and they tremble; the tempest of waters floweth over; the deep uttereth its voice, and lifteth up its hands on high.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2230.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2230/): 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).