marom · height

What it means

marom (מָרוֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “height”.

A high place. Also used for "on high," the heights of heaven.

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. What is on high: the height, the highest heaven.
2. With pride and arrogance, looking down on others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Height, what is high: an elevated place and, above all, heaven as the place of God. Also the haughtiness of one who puts himself above others. It comes from the verb רוּם, ‘rise, be high’ (H7311).

• “From on high”: where God acts from Psalms 18:16Psalms 102:19Jeremiah 25:30
• God “on high” Isaiah 57:15Psalms 93:4Micah 6:6
• Lifting the eyes “on high” Isaiah 40:262 Kings 19:22
• High places of the earth Proverbs 8:2Obadiah 1:3Jeremiah 31:12
• With haughtiness Psalms 56:2

How we translate it

“High” 29 times, above all in “on high” and “from on high”; “height” 12 and “heights” 11. In Psalm 56:2 it is rendered “with haughtiness”, because it is said of those who attack from above; the alternative remains in a note.

How it is translated

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

• high ×29
• height ×12
• heights ×11
• exalted ×1
• haughtiness ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Job×5
• Psalms×13
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×16
• Jeremiah×5
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Obadiah×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Judges 5:18

  Zebulun is a people that exposed its life to death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field.

• 2 Samuel 22:17

  He reached out from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

• 2 Kings 19:22

  Whom have you taunted and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted on high your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

• 2 Kings 19:23

  Through your messengers you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its orchard.

• Job 5:11

  setting the lowly on high, and those who mourn are lifted to salvation;

• Job 16:19

  Even now, look, in the heavens is my witness, and the one who vouches for me is in the heights.

• Job 25:2

  “Dominion and dread are with him; he makes peace in his heights.

• Job 31:2

  And what would be the portion of Eloah from above, and the inheritance of Shaddai from the heights?

• Job 39:18

  When she soars on high, she laughs at the horse and at its rider.

• Psalms 7:7

  And the community of the peoples will surround you; and over it return on high.

• Psalms 10:5

  His ways endure at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; at all his adversaries he snorts.

• Psalms 18:16

  He reached out from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

• Psalms 56:2

  Those who lie in wait for me trample me all the day, for many fight against me with haughtiness.

• Psalms 68:18

  You went up on high; you took captives; you took gifts among human beings, and even the rebellious, for Yah Elohim to dwell there.

• Psalms 71:19

  And your righteousness, Elohim, reaches to the heights, you who have done great things; Elohim, who is like you?

• Psalms 73:8

  They mock and speak with malice; of extortion from on high they speak.

• Psalms 75:5

  do not lift up on high your horn; nor speak with an insolent neck.’”

• Psalms 92:8

  But you, are on high forever, YHWH.

• Psalms 93:4

  More than the voices of many waters, more than the magnificent breakers of the sea, magnificent on high is YHWH.

• Psalms 102:19

  For he looked down from the height of his holiness; YHWH from the heavens to the earth gazed,

• Psalms 144:7

  Send your hands from on high; set me free and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of the foreigner,

• Psalms 148:1

  Praise Yah. Praise YHWH from the heavens; praise him in the heights.

• Proverbs 8:2

  At the top of the heights, beside the way, where the paths meet she takes her stand;

• Proverbs 9:3

  She has sent out her young women; she calls from the highest points of the heights of the city:

• Proverbs 9:14

  And she sits at the door of her house, on a seat, on the heights of the city,

• Ecclesiastes 10:6

  witlessness is set in many heights, and the rich sit in a low place.

• Isaiah 22:16

  ‘What do you have here, and whom do you have here, that you have hewn for yourself here a grave?’ (hewing on high his grave, carving in the crag a dwelling for himself).

• Isaiah 24:4

  The earth mourns, withers; the world languishes, withers; the exalted of the people of the earth languish.

• Isaiah 24:18

  And it will happen: the one who flees from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up out of the middle of the pit will be caught in the snare; for the floodgates on high have been opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.

• Isaiah 24:21

  And it will happen, on that day, that YHWH will punish the army of the height on high, and the kings of the ground on the ground.

• Isaiah 26:5

  For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the town set on high; he lays it low, he lays it low to the ground, he brings it to the dust.

• Isaiah 32:15

  until a spirit is poured out on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes an orchard, and the orchard is regarded as a forest.

• Isaiah 33:5

  YHWH is set on high, for he dwells on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

• Isaiah 33:16

  he will dwell on the heights; fortresses of crags will be his high refuge; his bread will be given, his waters sure.

• Isaiah 37:23

  Whom have you taunted and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted on high your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

• Isaiah 37:24

  Through your servants you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter the height of its farthest end, the forest of its orchard.

• Isaiah 38:14

  Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirped; I moaned like the dove; my eyes grew weak looking on high. Adonai, oppression is on me; be surety for me.

• Isaiah 40:26

  Lift up on high your eyes and see: who created these? He who brings out by number their army, calls them all by name; by the greatness of his vigor, and being mighty in strength, not one is missing.

• Isaiah 57:15

  For thus says the High and Lifted Up One, who inhabits eternity, and Holy is his name: “In the high and holy place I dwell, and with the crushed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the crushed.

• Isaiah 58:4

  Look, for strife and contention you fast, and to strike with a fist of wickedness; do not fast as you do today to make your voice heard on high.

And 14 more times.