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# יְרֹחָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3395

**Jeroham** — used 10 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

Jeroham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3395/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְרֹחָם²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3395/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (may he be compassionated; cf. LagBN 134);— father of Elkanah, grandf. of Sam., Ephraimite 1 S 1:1 (Ιερεμε\[ι\]ηλ, A Ιεροαμ); Levite 1 Ch 6:12, 19 (Ιδαερ, Ηααλ; A Ιεροβοαμ, Ιερεαμ; 𝔊L Ιεραμαηλ). Benjamites: 1 Ch 8:27 Ιρααμ, etc. (appar. = יְרֵמוֹת v 14). 9:8, 𝔊 id. (= a?). priests: 1 Ch 9:12, Ι(ε)ρααμ, etc. Ne 11:11, Ι(ε)ροαμ. father of a hero of David 1 Ch 12:8 (van d. H. v 7), Ρααμ, A 𝔊L Ιεροαμ. Danite 1 Ch 27:22, Ιωραμ (𝔊L as 4). father of a captain with Jehoiada, 2 Ch 23:1, Ιωραμ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of Jeroham (9); Jeroham (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.19/#tree)

בֶּן־אֶלְקָנָה֙ בֶּן־יְרֹחָ֔ם בֶּן־אֱלִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־תּֽוֹחַ׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Elkanah the.son of.Jeroham the.son of.Eliel the.son of.Toah

*JPS 1917:* the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah;

[1 Chronicles 8:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.27/#tree)

וְיַעֲרֶשְׁיָ֧ה וְאֵלִיָּ֛ה וְזִכְרִ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יְרֹחָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Jaareshiah and Elijah and Zikri \[were\].the.sons of.Jeroham

*JPS 1917:* and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, were the sons of Jeroham.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3395.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3395/): 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).