דָּרוֹם
south
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1864 appears — 14 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 2 verses
- Ecclesiastes 1:6 דָּר֔וֹם n c ms The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
- Ecclesiastes 11:3 בַּ/דָּר֖וֹם prep det + n c ms If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; And if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, In the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
Ezekiel 10 verses
- Ezekiel 20:46 דָּר֑וֹם n c ms Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
- Ezekiel 40:24 הַ/דָּר֔וֹם הַ/דָּר֑וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms He led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.
- Ezekiel 40:27 הַ/דָּר֑וֹם הַ/דָּר֖וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms 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 הַ/דָּר֑וֹם הַ/דָּר֔וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
- Ezekiel 40:44 הַ/דָּר֑וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms Outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
- Ezekiel 40:45 הַ/דָּר֔וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms He said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;
- Ezekiel 41:11 לַ/דָּר֑וֹם prep det + n c ms The doors of the side-chambers were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
- Ezekiel 42:12 הַ/דָּר֔וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.
- Ezekiel 42:13 הַ/דָּרוֹם֮ ptcl def.art + n c ms Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; for the place is holy.
- Ezekiel 42:18 הַ/דָּר֖וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun דרום centers on the idea of “south.” Ezekiel dominates its distribution — 10 of 14 verses. Spanning 14 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Deuteronomy 33:23, it then recurs through the corpus. Dig into 14-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1864 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 10 verses 71%
- Ecclesiastes 2 verses 14%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 7%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 71%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 21%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: South 13×, Toward the south 3×
- American Standard Version: South 12×, Toward the south 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: South 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: South 7×, Facing south 2×, South side 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1864 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1864 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1864 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1864 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- south
Word origin
n.m. south (poet. & late) (on formation cf. Ol§ 216 a Sta§ 295)—דָּרוֹם Jb 37:17 + 16 times + Ez 40:27 b. 28 b (del. 𝔖 Co in v 27 b; AB 𝔖 Co in v 28 b—south, Ez 42:18 (over against קָדִים, צָפוֹן, יָם); 12 times more in Ezek.) of wh. Co del. 2, cf. supr.) 21:2 (= תֵּימָנָה and נֶגֶב); דֶּרֶךְ הַדּ׳ toward south 40:24(×2), 27, read also דֶּרֶךְ הַדּ׳ 42:10 for ד׳ הַקָּדִים 𝔊 Ke Co; שַׁעַר הַדּ׳ south gate 40:[27], 28, [28] cf. Co supr., 40:44 (opp. צפון; also קדים), v 45 (opp. צפון) 42:12 = לַדָּ׳ 41:11 (opp. צפון), לִשְׁכוֹת הד׳ 42:13 (opp. צפון). Elsewhere only Dt 33:23 (‖ יַם), Jb 37:17; Ec 1:6; 11:3 (both opp. צפון).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דָּרוֹם
- (b. h.) South, southern region. Yoma 21ᵇ כלפי ד׳ towards the South. Gen. R. s. 1, beg. דְּרוֹמוֹ של רקיע the southern section of the sky; a. fr.—Esp. הַדָּ׳ (b. h. הַנֶּגֶב) the South of Palestine, south of Lydda (with a town of the same name: Darom, v. Neub. Géogr. p. 63). Pes. 70ᵇ. Yeb. 45ᵃ; Zeb. 22ᵇ זקני ד׳; Y. Erub. VI, 23ᶜ bot. זקני הד׳ the scholars of D.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H1864 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/דָּר֑וֹם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:24 | 4 |
| הַ/דָּר֔וֹם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:24 | 4 |
| הַ/דָּר֖וֹם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:27 | 2 |
| בַּ/דָּר֖וֹם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 11:3 | 1 |
| דָּר֑וֹם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 20:46 | 1 |
| דָּר֔וֹם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 1:6 | 1 |
| הַ/דָּרוֹם֮ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 42:13 | 1 |
| וְ/דָר֖וֹם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 33:23 | 1 |
| לַ/דָּר֑וֹם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 41:11 | 1 |
| מִ/דָּרֽוֹם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 37:17 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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