קְיָם
keyam · statute
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H7010 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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keyam (קְיָם) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “statute”.
Decree (Aramaic).
How to say it
ke·yam
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
- A written rule the king signs and that has the force of law (Aramaic).
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Daniel 6:7
All the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the advisers and the governors, have agreed to establish a royal statute and to enforce a prohibition, that whoever makes a request of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of the lions.
- Daniel 6:15
Then these men came thronging to the king and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no prohibition or statute that the king establishes may be changed.”