חוּרָם
Huram
BDB lists 4 entries for ‘Huram’ fuller range ↓
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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2361 appears — 11 distinct verses across 2 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.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 10 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:3 חוּרָ֥ם n Proper Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, [even so deal with me].
- 2 Chronicles 2:11 חוּרָ֤ם n Proper Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.
- 2 Chronicles 2:12 חוּרָם֒ n Proper Huram said moreover, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
- 2 Chronicles 2:13 לְ/חוּרָ֥ם prep + n Proper Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father's,
- 2 Chronicles 4:11 חוּרָ֔ם חוּרָ֗ם n Proper n Proper Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he did for king Solomon in the house of God:
- 2 Chronicles 4:16 חוּרָ֥ם n Proper The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all the vessels of it, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass.
- 2 Chronicles 8:2 חוּרָם֙ n Proper that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
- 2 Chronicles 8:18 חוּרָ֨ם n Proper Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants who had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:10 חוּרָם֙ n Proper The servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21 חוּרָ֑ם n Proper For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
About this entry
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חורם — transliterated Chûwrâm — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Huram.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 2 Chronicles. It appears 11 verses across 2 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Chronicles 8:5. See 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2361 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 10 verses 91%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 9%
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 11 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 verses · 100%
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: Huram 11×
- American Standard Version: Huram 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hiram 5×, Huram-abi 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Huram 7×, Hiram 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2361 across 12 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2361 across 12 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2361 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H2361 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses 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.
- Huram = "noble born"
- son of Bela and grandson of Benjamin
- king of Tyre allied with David and Solomon; alternate spelling for 'Hiram'
- a chief architect of Solomon's temple; alternate spelling for 'Hiram'
Word origin
v. חִירָם sub אַח, אחה supr. p. 27 b.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חור (chûwr) (H2353) — white cloth.
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.
חוֹרֵם
- net-maker, or fisher, v. חָרַם.
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 H2361 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חוּרָ֥ם | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 2:3 | 2 |
| חוּרָם֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 8:2 | 2 |
| וְ/חוּרָֽם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 8:5 | 1 |
| חוּרָ֑ם | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 9:21 | 1 |
| חוּרָ֔ם | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 4:11 | 1 |
| חוּרָ֗ם | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 4:11 | 1 |
| חוּרָ֤ם | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 2:11 | 1 |
| חוּרָ֨ם | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 8:18 | 1 |
| חוּרָם֒ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 2:12 | 1 |
| לְ/חוּרָ֥ם | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 2:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2361, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Huram). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(noble born).
+ A Benjamite; son of Bela, the first-born of the patriarch. (1 Chronicles 8:5) + The form in which the name of the king of Tyre in alliance with David and Solomon--and elsewhere given as Hiram, Or Huram-- appears in Chronicles. (1 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles 2:3,11,12; 8:2,18; 9:10,21) + The same Change occurs in Chronicles in the name of Hiram the artificer, which is given as Hiram, Or Huram in (2 Chronicles 2:13; 4:11,16) [Hiram, Or Huram]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
their liberty; their whiteness; their hole
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
