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# רוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7312

**height** — used 6 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

height [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7312/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רוּם²: height, haughtiness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7312/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] height, haughtiness (proposes inf.);—abs. ר׳, height, loftiness, שָׁמַיִם לָר׳ וָאָרֶץ לָעֹמֶק Pr 25:3; cstr. רוּם עֵינַיִם fig. of haughtiness Is 10:12 (‖ גֹּדֶל לֵבָב), Pr 21:4 (‖ רְחַב־לֵב); so רֻם לִבּוֹ Je 48:29 (‖ גַּאֲוָה, גָּאוֹן, גֹּבַתּ); then alone: haughtiness, רוּם אֲנָשִׁים Is 2:11, 17 (both ‖ גַּבְהוּת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] haughtiness (2); haughtiness (1); height (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 21:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.4/#tree)

רוּם־עֵ֭ינַיִם וּרְחַב־לֵ֑ב נִ֖ר רְשָׁעִ֣ים חַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* haughtiness of.eyes and a.\[person\].wide of.heart \[the\].lamp of.wicked.\[people\] \[is\].sin

*JPS 1917:* A haughty look, and a proud heart — the tillage of the wicked is sin.

[Proverbs 25:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.3/#tree)

שָׁמַ֣יִם לָ֭רוּם וָאָ֣רֶץ לָעֹ֑מֶק וְלֵ֥ב מְ֝לָכִ֗ים אֵ֣ין חֵֽקֶר׃

*Word for word:* heaven for (the) height and earth for (the) depth and.\[the\] heart of.kings there.\[is\].not searching

*JPS 1917:* The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7312.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7312/): 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).