רוּם
rum · be high, lift up
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7311 · appears 189 times in the Bible
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rum (רוּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be high, lift up”.
Be high, rise; in the causative form, lift up, raise, exalt.
How to say it
rum
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
- To be up above, raised in honor.
- To put on high: to raise the voice, praise God, or be God lifting up the lowly.
- To lift and set apart a share, the contribution for the sanctuary or for God.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
To be high, to rise; in the causative form, to lift up, raise, exalt; also to set apart a portion as a contribution. BDB: to be high, to rise or raise, in many applications, literal or figurative. From the same root comes מָרוֹם, “the height” (H4791).
- Raising the hand Exodus 17:11Genesis 14:22
- A throne “high and lifted up” Isaiah 6:1
- Exalting YHWH: “Be exalted” Psalms 18:46Psalms 57:5
- Setting apart a contribution Numbers 18:26
How we translate it
Many forms according to the passage: “exalted” 22, “high” 20, “raised” 19, “exalt” 13, “lift up” 12, “lifted up” 12, “lofty” 5… In the laws of the contributions the verb means to separate a portion for YHWH and is translated “set apart” (“you shall set apart” 10 times; “contributed” 5), and from it comes תְּרוּמָה, “contribution”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- exalted ×22
- high ×20
- raised ×19
- Exalt ×13
- lift up ×12
- lifted up ×12
- you shall set apart ×10
- lift ×8
- contributed ×5
- lofty ×5
- others ×63
Related words
Words that come from it
- מָרוֹם marom · height
- יְהוֹרָם yehoram · Joram
- עַמְרָם amram · Amram
- אֲבִירָם aviram · Abiram
- יַרְמוּת yarmut · Jarmuth
- רָם ram · Ram
- רִמָּה rima · maggot
- מְרֵמוֹת meremot · Meremoth
- רָמָה rama · height
- רוּם rum · be lifted up; exalt
- רוֹמַמְתִּי עֶזֶר romamti-ezer · Romamti-ezer
- בֵּית הָרָם bet-haram · Beth-haram
- אֲדֹנִירָם adoniram · Adoniram
- אֲחִירָם achiram · Ahiram
- יְרֵמַי yeremay · Jeremai
- מַלְכִּירָם malkiram · Malchiram
- רוֹם rom · on high
- רוּמָה ruma · Rumah
- רָמוּת ramut · carcasses
- רַמְיָה ramya · Ramiah
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×6
- Exodus×8
- Leviticus×7
- Numbers×16
- Deuteronomy×9
- Joshua×1
- 1 Samuel×5
- 2 Samuel×3
- 1 Kings×4
- 2 Kings×3
- 1 Chronicles×2
- 2 Chronicles×6
- Ezra×4
- Nehemiah×1
- Job×6
- Psalms×49
- Proverbs×8
- Isaiah×25
- Lamentations×1
- Ezekiel×17
- Daniel×4
- Hosea×3
- Micah×1
- Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth.
- Genesis 14:22
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to YHWH, El Elyon, owner of the heavens and earth,
- Genesis 31:45
So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a standing stone.
- Genesis 39:15
When he heard that I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside.”
- Genesis 39:18
But when I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.”
- Genesis 41:44
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you no one will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”
- Exodus 7:20
Moses and Aaron did so, as YHWH had commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned into blood.
- Exodus 14:8
YHWH made the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt obstinate, and he pursued the sons of Israel, while the sons of Israel were going out with hand raised.
- Exodus 14:16
And you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and split it, so that the sons of Israel may go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
- Exodus 15:2
My strength and my song is Yah, and he has become my salvation. This is my El, and I will praise him; the Elohim of my father, and I will exalt him.
- Exodus 16:20
But they did not listen to Moses; some men left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank; and Moses was angry with them.
- Exodus 17:11
Whenever Moses raised his hand, Israel prevailed; and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.
- Exodus 29:27
You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, which was waved and which was lifted up from the ram of ordination, from what is for Aaron and from what is for his sons.
- Exodus 35:24
Everyone who set apart a contribution of silver and bronze brought the contribution of YHWH; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.
- Leviticus 2:9
The priest shall take up from the grain offering its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.
- Leviticus 4:8
All the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take off from it: the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
- Leviticus 4:10
just as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace; and the priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering.
- Leviticus 4:19
All its fat he shall take off from it and offer it up in smoke on the altar.
- Leviticus 6:10
The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on linen undergarments on his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes left when the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and put them beside the altar.
- Leviticus 6:15
He shall take up from it in his handful some of the fine flour of the grain offering and of its oil, and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and offer it up in smoke on the altar as a pleasing aroma, its memorial portion to YHWH.
- Leviticus 22:15
And they shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they set apart to YHWH,
- Numbers 15:19
then when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall set apart a contribution for YHWH.
- Numbers 15:20
Of the first of your dough you shall set apart a loaf as a contribution; like the contribution of the threshing floor, so you shall set it apart.
- Numbers 16:37
“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers from among the burning, and scatter the fire far away, for they have become holy,
- Numbers 18:19
All the contributions of the holy things that the sons of Israel set apart for YHWH I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before YHWH for you and for your offspring with you.”
- Numbers 18:24
For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they set apart to YHWH as a contribution, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the sons of Israel they shall not inherit an inheritance.’”
- Numbers 18:26
“And to the Levites you shall speak and say to them, ‘When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall set apart from it a contribution for YHWH, a tithe of the tithe.
- Numbers 18:28
So you also shall set apart a contribution for YHWH from all your tithes that you take from the sons of Israel, and you shall give from it the contribution for YHWH to Aaron the priest.
- Numbers 18:29
From all your gifts you shall set apart every contribution for YHWH, from all the best of it, the holy part of it from it.
- Numbers 18:30
And you shall say to them, ‘When you set apart the best of it from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress.
- Numbers 18:32
And you shall not bear sin because of it, when you set apart the best of it from it; and you shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, so that you will not die.’”
- Numbers 20:11
And Moses raised his hand and struck the crag with his staff twice, and much water came out, and the community and their livestock drank.
- Numbers 24:7
Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be by many waters; and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
- Numbers 31:28
And you shall set apart a tribute for YHWH from the men of war who went out to the army: one living being out of five hundred, of the people, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep.
- Numbers 31:52
And all the gold of the contribution that they set apart for YHWH was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels, from the commanders of thousands and from the commanders of hundreds.
- Numbers 33:3
They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a raised hand before the eyes of all Egypt,
- Deuteronomy 1:28
Where are we going up? Our brothers have melted our heart, saying, ‘A people greater and taller than we; cities great and fortified up to the heavens; and also we saw the sons of the Anakim there.’”
- Deuteronomy 2:10
(The Emim lived there formerly, a people great, numerous, and tall like the Anakim.
- Deuteronomy 2:21
a people great, numerous, and tall like the Anakim. But YHWH destroyed them from before them, and they dispossessed them and lived in their place,
- Deuteronomy 8:14
and your heart is lifted up, and you forget YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves,
And 149 more times.