darom · south

What it means

darom (דָּרוֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “south”.

The south; in poetry, the south wind.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The direction of the sun at its highest hour, opposite the north.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• south ×16
• southland ×1

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Ezekiel×13

• Deuteronomy 33:23

  And of Naphtali he said, “Naphtali, satisfied with favor and full of the blessing of YHWH, take possession of the sea and the south.”

• Job 37:17

  You whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

• Ecclesiastes 1:6

  Going toward the south and circling toward the north, circling, circling goes the wind; and on its circuits the wind returns.

• Ecclesiastes 11:3

  If the clouds are full of rain, on the earth they empty it; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.

• Ezekiel 20:46

  “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and let your word drip toward the southland, and prophesy against the forest of the field of the Negev.

• Ezekiel 40:24

  And he led me toward the south, and look, a gate toward the south; and he measured its pilasters and its porticoes according to these measures.

• Ezekiel 40:27

  And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

• Ezekiel 40:28

  And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate, and he measured the south gate according to these measures.

• Ezekiel 40:44

  And outside the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was beside the side of the north gate, with their front toward the south, one beside the side of the east gate, facing toward the north.

• Ezekiel 40:45

  And he spoke to me, “This is the chamber that faces toward the south, for the priests who keep the charge of the house;

• Ezekiel 41:11

  And the entrance of the side chamber opened to the free space, one entrance toward the north, and one entrance to the south; and the width of the place of the free space, five cubits all around.

• Ezekiel 42:12

  And according to the entrances of the chambers that were toward the south there was an entrance at the head of the way, the way in front of the corresponding fence, toward the east, as one enters them.

• Ezekiel 42:13

  And he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers that are in front of the separate area, they are the holy chambers, where the priests who are near to YHWH eat the most holy things; there they shall put the most holy things, and the grain offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

• Ezekiel 42:18

  The south side he measured, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

And 3 more times.