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# יְהוֹרָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3088

**Jehoram** — used 29 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

Jehoram [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3088/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְהוֹרָם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3088/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ is exalted; cf. מַלְכִּירָם; further, Ph. בעלרם, רמבעל; Sab. אלרם DHMZMG 1876, 686)— יְהוֹ׳ (𝔊 Ἰωραμ) king of Judah, son of Jehoshaphat 1 K 22:51 2 K 1:17; 8:16, 25, 29; 12:19 2 Ch 21:1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 16; 22:1, 6, 11; = יוֹ׳ 2 K 8:21, 23, 24; 11:2 1 Ch 3:11. יְהוֹ׳ (𝔊 Ἰωραμ) king of Israel son of Ahab 2 K 1:17; 3:1, 6; 9:15, 17, 21, 22, 23 2 Ch 2, 6, 7; = יוֹ׳ 2 K 8:16, 25, 28(×2), 29(×2); 9:14(×2), 16(×2), 29 2 Ch 22:5, 7. יְהוֹ׳ priest in time of Jehoshaphat 2 Ch 17:8 (𝔊 Ἰωραμ, Ἰωραν). יוֹ׳ son of Tou, king of Hamath 2 S 8:10 (𝔊 Ἰεδδουραν) prob. error for הֲדוֹרָם ‖ 1 Ch 18:10. יֹרָם a Levite 1 Ch 26:25 (𝔊 Ἰωραμ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jehoram (25); of Jehoram (4).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 9:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.23/#tree)

וַיַּהֲפֹ֧ךְ יְהוֹרָ֛ם יָדָ֖יו וַיָּנֹ֑ס וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֶל־אֲחַזְיָ֖הוּ מִרְמָ֥ה אֲחַזְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.turned.around Jehoram hands his and he.fled and he.said to Ahaziah treachery O.Ahaziah

*JPS 1917:* And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah: 'There is treachery, O Ahaziah.'

[2 Chronicles 21:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.5/#tree)

בֶּן־שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וּשְׁתַּ֛יִם שָׁנָ֖ה יְהוֹרָ֣ם בְּמָלְכ֑וֹ וּשְׁמוֹנֶ֣ה שָׁנִ֔ים מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].a.son of.thirty and two year\[s\] Jehoram when he became.king and eight years he.reigned in Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3088.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3088/): 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).