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# רָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7410

**Ram. See also** — used 7 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

Ram. See also [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7410/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7410/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. an ancestor of David, Ru 4:19(×2), brother of Jerachmeel 1 Ch 2:9, 10. son of J. 1 Ch 2:25, 27.—Αρραν, Ραμ, etc. name of Elihu’s family, Jb 32:2 (Ραμ\[α\], Αραμ), dub., cf. Bu.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Ram (5); of Ram (2).

## In the verses

[Ruth 4:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.19/#tree)

וְחֶצְרוֹן֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־רָ֔ם וְרָ֖ם הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־עַמִּֽינָדָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and Hezron he.fathered (et) Ram and Ram he.fathered (et) Amminadab

*JPS 1917:* and Hezron begot Ram, and Ram begot Amminadab;

[1 Chronicles 2:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.27/#tree)

וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵי־רָ֖ם בְּכ֣וֹר יְרַחְמְאֵ֑ל מַ֥עַץ וְיָמִ֖ין וָעֵֽקֶר׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.sons of.Ram the.firstborn of.Jerahmeel Maaz and Jamin and Eker

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7410.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7410/): 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).