the Fourth Week after Easter
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #2361 - חוּרָם
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Huram = “noble born”
1) son of Bela and grandson of Benjamin
2) king of Tyre allied with David and Solomon; alternate spelling for ‘Hiram’
3) a chief architect of Solomon’s temple; alternate spelling for ‘Hiram’
- Book
- Word
חוּרָם (perhaps “noble,” “free-born,” from חֹר with the termination ־ָם), Huram, pr.n.
(1) of a king of Tyre, cotemporary with Solomon, 2 Chronicles 2:2 elsewhere חִירָם 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15 [“called in Greek Εἴρωμος, Jos. c. Ap. i. 17, 18”].
(2) of a Tyrian artificer, 2 Chronicles 4:11 elsewhere חִירוֹם 1 Kings 7:40 חִירָם 2 Ch. loc. cit. כתיב; חוּרָם אָבִי 2 Chronicles 2:12 and חוּרָם אָבִיז 4:16 (where either the one reading or the other must have been corrupted); [however, Gesenius explains the readings as they stand in Thes. i. page 458].
(3) a Benjamite, 1 Chronicles 8:5.
