yehoram · Joram

What it means

yehoram (יְהוֹרָם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Joram”.

(also written Jehoram): a name meaning "YHWH is exalted." It is borne by the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah (1 Kings 22:50), by the son of Ahab, king of Israel (2 Kings 3:1), and by others.

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.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×15
• 2 Chronicles×13

• 1 Kings 22:50

  Jehoshaphat lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Joram his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 1:17

  He died according to the word of YHWH that Elijah had spoken. And Joram reigned in his place in year two of Joram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because he did not have a son.

• 2 Kings 3:1

  Joram son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in year eighteen of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned twelve years.

• 2 Kings 3:6

  King Joram went out on that day from Samaria and mustered all Israel.

• 2 Kings 8:16

  In year five of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah, Joram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign.

• 2 Kings 8:25

  In year twelve of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Joram, king of Judah, began to reign.

• 2 Kings 8:29

  King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was sick.

• 2 Kings 9:15

  but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Jehu said, “If this is your will, let no survivor get out of the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”

• 2 Kings 9:17

  The watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is there peace?’”

• 2 Kings 9:21

  Joram said, “Hitch up.” And his chariot was hitched up, and Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and they found him at the plot of Naboth the Jezreelite.

• 2 Kings 9:22

  And it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, “Is there peace, Jehu?” He said, “What peace, as long as the prostitutions of Jezebel your mother and her many sorceries go on?”

• 2 Kings 9:23

  Joram turned his hands and fled and said to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”

• 2 Kings 9:24

  Jehu filled his hand with the bow and struck Joram between his arms, and the arrow came out from his heart, and he sank down in his chariot.

• 2 Kings 12:18

  Joash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Joram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had consecrated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of YHWH and of the house of the king, and sent it to Hazael king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 17:8

  and with them the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Joram, the priests.

• 2 Chronicles 21:1

  Jehoshaphat lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Joram his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 21:3

  Their father gave them many gifts of silver and of gold and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Joram, because he was the firstborn.

• 2 Chronicles 21:4

  Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father and made himself strong, and killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the officials of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 21:5

  Joram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 21:9

  Joram crossed over with his commanders, and all the chariots with him; and it happened that he rose by night and struck Edom, which surrounded him, and the commanders of the chariots.

• 2 Chronicles 21:16

  YHWH stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who are beside the Cushites.

• 2 Chronicles 22:1

  The inhabitants of Jerusalem made king in his place Ahaziah, his youngest son, for the band that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed all the older ones. So Ahaziah son of Joram, king of Judah, reigned.

• 2 Chronicles 22:5

  He also walked in their counsel, and went with Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead; and the Arameans wounded Joram.

• 2 Chronicles 22:6

  He returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Azariah son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was sick.

• 2 Chronicles 22:7

  The ruin of Ahaziah was from Elohim, by coming to Joram; for when he came, he went out with Joram against Jehu son of Nimshi, whom YHWH had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

• 2 Chronicles 22:11

  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in the room of the beds. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Joram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest —for she was the sister of Ahaziah— hid him from Athaliah, and she did not put him to death.

And 3 more times.