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# חִירָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2438

**Hiram** — used 22 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

Hiram [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2438/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִירָם: n.pr.m. Hiram [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2438/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Hiram (Ph. חרם; abbr. from foregoing)—ח׳ 2 S 5:11 + 18 times 1 K + Kt 1 Ch 14:1 2 Ch 4:11; 9:10 (all Qr חוּרָם); חִירוֹם 1 K 5:24, 32; 7:40; also חוּרָם 1 Ch 8:5 + 9 times Ch.— king of Tyre, contemp. of David & Solomon 2 S 5:11 1 K 5:15(×2), 16, 21, 22, 24, 25(×2), 26, 32; 9:11(×2), 12, 14, 27; 10:11, 22 1 Ch 14:1 2 Ch 2:2, 10, 11; 8:2, 18; 9:10, 21. an artificer of Tyre, sent by Hiram the king 1 K 7:13, 40(×2), 45 2 Ch 2:12; 4:11(×2), 16. a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hiram (19); of Hiram (3).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 5:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.16/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה אֶל־חִירָ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Solomon to Hiram (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:

[1 Kings 7:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.13/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה וַיִּקַּ֥ח אֶת־חִירָ֖ם מִצֹּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent the king Solomon and he.brought (et) Hiram from Tyre

*JPS 1917:* And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2438.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2438/): 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).