מָרוֹם
height
‘height’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 32 times (59%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 12 times (22%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 6 times (11%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 4 times (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 54 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4791 appears — 52 distinct verses across 14 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.
Judges 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 19:22 מָר֛וֹם n c ms Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
- 2 Kings 19:23 מְר֥וֹם n c ms cs By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
Job 5 verses
- Job 5:11 לְ/מָר֑וֹם prep + n c ms So that he sets up on high those who are low, Those who mourn are exalted to safety.
- Job 16:19 בַּ/מְּרוֹמִֽים prep det + n c mp Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
- Job 25:2 בִּ/מְרוֹמָֽי/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms "Dominion and fear are with him; He makes peace in his high places.
- Job 31:2 מִ/מְּרֹמִֽים prep + n c mp For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?
- Job 39:18 בַּ/מָּר֣וֹם prep det + n c ms When she lifts up herself on high, She scorns the horse and his rider.
Psalms 13 verses
- Psalms 7:7 לַ/מָּר֥וֹם prep det + n c ms Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.
- Psalms 10:5 מָר֣וֹם n c ms His ways are prosperous at all times; He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight: As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
- Psalms 18:16 מִ֭/מָּרוֹם prep + n c ms He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
- Psalms 56:2 מָרֽוֹם n c ms My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, For they are many who fight proudly against me.
- Psalms 68:18 לַ/מָּר֨וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, Yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
- Psalms 71:19 מָ֫ר֥וֹם n c ms Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; You have done great things. God, who is like you?
- Psalms 73:8 מִ/מָּר֥וֹם prep + n c ms They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
- Psalms 75:5 לַ/מָּר֣וֹם prep det + n c ms Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."
- Psalms 92:8 מָר֗וֹם n c ms But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.
- Psalms 93:4 בַּ/מָּר֣וֹם prep det + n c ms Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
- Psalms 102:19 מִ/מְּר֣וֹם prep + n c ms cs For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
- Psalms 144:7 מִ/מָּ֫ר֥וֹם prep + n c ms Stretch out your hand from above, Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hands of foreigners;
- Psalms 148:1 בַּ/מְּרוֹמִֽים prep det + n c mp Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!
Proverbs 3 verses
- Proverbs 8:2 מְרוֹמִ֥ים n c mp On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she stands.
- Proverbs 9:3 מְרֹ֣מֵי n c mp cs She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:
- Proverbs 9:14 מְרֹ֣מֵי n c mp cs She sits at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Isaiah 14 verses
- Isaiah 22:16 מָרוֹם֙ n c ms "What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"
- Isaiah 24:4 מְר֥וֹם n c ms cs The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
- Isaiah 24:18 מִ/מָּרוֹם֙ prep + n c ms It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
- Isaiah 24:21 הַ/מָּר֖וֹם בַּ/מָּר֑וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms prep det + n c ms It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
- Isaiah 26:5 מָר֔וֹם n c ms For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.
- Isaiah 32:15 מִ/מָּר֑וֹם prep + n c ms until the Spirit be poured on us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.
- Isaiah 33:5 מָר֑וֹם n c ms Yahweh is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
- Isaiah 33:16 מְרוֹמִ֣ים n c mp He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
- Isaiah 37:23 מָר֛וֹם n c ms Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 37:24 מְר֥וֹם מְר֣וֹם n c ms cs n c ms cs By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;
- Isaiah 38:14 לַ/מָּר֔וֹם prep det + n c ms Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.
- Isaiah 40:26 מָר֨וֹם n c ms Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
- Isaiah 57:15 מָר֥וֹם n c ms For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Isaiah 58:4 בַּ/מָּר֖וֹם prep det + n c ms Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Jeremiah 5 verses
- Jeremiah 17:12 מָר֖וֹם n c ms A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
- Jeremiah 25:30 מִ/מָּר֤וֹם prep + n c ms Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
- Jeremiah 31:12 בִ/מְרוֹם prep + n c ms cs They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
- Jeremiah 49:16 מְר֣וֹם n c ms cs As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 51:53 מְר֣וֹם n c ms cs Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 3 verses
- Ezekiel 17:23 מְר֤וֹם n c ms cs in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches of it shall they dwell.
- Ezekiel 20:40 מְר֣וֹם n c ms cs For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
- Ezekiel 34:14 מְרֽוֹם n c ms cs I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.
Obadiah 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
Habakkuk 1 verse
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.
“height” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun מרום (mârôwm). Carrying more than one sense, it rewards its full sense range. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 52 verses — moderately common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Isaiah. First canonically at Judges 5:18, it enters the text early. See the sense tree, 52-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4791 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 →
- 52
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 52 distinct verses.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #696
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 52 occurrences in the concordance →
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 52 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 29 verses · 56%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 23 verses · 44%
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: High 20×, Height 9×, Above 4×
- American Standard Version: High 22×, Height 10×, High places 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: High 19×, Heights 12×, Lofty 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Height 17×, High 9×, Heights 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4791 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4791 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 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 H4791 across 53 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4791 across 53 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. height, elevation (concr.), elevated place: מְרוֹמֵי שָׂדֶה Ju 5:18, בְּרֹאשׁ מְרֹמִים Pr 8:2; מְרוֹם שִׁבְתּוֹ Ob 3 (cf. Now), מְרוֹם גִּבְעָה in ‖ Je 49:16; מ׳ הָרִים top of mts. 2 K 19:23 = Is 37:24a, מ׳ קִצּוֹ v 24 b; מ׳ עֻזָּהּ Je 51:53 (of Bab.); city Pr 9:14; Zion, מ׳ Je 17:12, מ׳ צִיּוֹן 31:12, בְּהַר מ׳ יִשְׂרָאֵל Ez 17:23; 20:40, בְּהָרֵי מ׳ יִשׂ׳ 34:14; indef., Hb 2:9 (in fig.), לָשׂוּם שְׁפָלִים לְמ׳ Jb 5:11; מיכִּרַ בַּמְּרוֹמִים Ec 10:6 (of high office, rank; opp. שֵׁפֶל); ישְׁבֵי מָרוֹם Is 26:5, i.e. in (supposed) security, cf. מְרוֹמִים יִשְׁכֹּן 33:16 (‖ מְצָרוֹת סְלָעִים); לַמּ׳ on high (Germ. in die Höhe) ψ 75:6, so בַּמּ׳ Jb 39:18, adv.=in a high place Is 22:16. e.g. Judges 5:18
- 2. מ׳ alone = height of heaven: אֱלֹהֵי מָרוֹם Mi 6:6; 2 S 22:17 = ψ 18:17; Is 24:21(×2); 32:15; 57:15; 58:4; La 1:13; ψ 7:8; 68:19; 71:19; 93:4; 144:7, pl. Jb 25:2; ‖ שָׁמַיִם, מ׳ קָדְשׁוֹ ψ 102:20, מְרוֹמִים Jb 16:19 ψ 148:1; ‖ מְעוֹן קָדְשׁוֹ Je 25:30, ‖ מָ֑עַל Jb 31:2 (pl.), opp. מוֹסְדֵי אֶרֶץ Is 24:18; as pred. of י׳ ψ 92:9 cf. 10:5; as adv. (i.e. in heaven) 2 K 19:22 Is 33:5; 37:23; 40:26; לַּמּ׳ towards heaven Is 38:14; ψ 68:19; בַּמּ׳ Is 24:21, מִמּ׳ ψ 73:8 they speak (as if) from the sky, from heaven (i.e. so arrogantly). e.g. Micah 6:6
- 3. מ׳ adv. 2 S 22:17 = ψ 18:17 fig., = proudly ψ 56:3 (so Gei Hup-Now al., cf. Che, but dub.), Bae in high station; Du reads מַריוֹם (יוֹם to v4; as dittogr.?). e.g. 2 Samuel 22:17
- 4. fig. of nobles (coll.) מְרוֹם עַם־הָאָרֶץ Is 24:4. e.g. Isaiah 24:4
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Ec 10:6 height (poet.);—abs. מ׳ Mi 6:6 +; cstr. מְרוֹם 2 K 19:23 +; pl. מְרוֹמִים Is 33:16 +; cstr. מְרוֹמֵי Ju 5:18; sf. מְרוֹמָיו Jb 25:2;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רום (rûwm) (H7311) — to rise.
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.
מרום
- , Tosef. B. Kam. I, 4 Var., v. מָרוּת
מֵרוֹם
- Merom. Y. Taan. IV, 68ᵇ top; Y. Meg. IV, 75ᵃ bot. לעזר בר מ׳(א); Treat. Sof’rim XXI, 7 ברבי מקום (corr. acc.). Gen. R. s. 66 בן מֵרוֹן; Cant. R. to VII, 1 ב"ר מרון; Ruth R. to II, 5 מרים; Yalk. ib. 601 מריון (corr. acc.).
מָרוֹם
- height, on high. Lev. R. s. 5; Yalk. Is. 290, v. חָצַב.—Pl. מְרוֹמִים, constr. מְרוֹמֵי. Nidd. 16ᵇ (cit. fr. Ben Sira) המושיב שבת במ׳ קרת he who places his (scholar’s) seat on the heights of the city.
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 43 distinct written forms H4791 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4791, 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
- רום rûwm H7312 haughtiness
- רום rûwm H7313 to rise
- רום rôwm H7315 on high
- רמה râmâh H7413 high place
- רמות râmûwth H7419 height
- תרומה tᵉrûwmâh H8641 offering
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- ירימות Yᵉrîymôwth H3406 Jerimoth
- ירמות Yarmûwth H3412 Jarmuth
- ירמי Yᵉrêmay H3413 Jeremai
- ירמיה Yirmᵉyâh H3414 Jeremiah
- מרמות Mᵉrêmôwth H4822 Meremoth
- רומה Rûwmâh H7316 height
- רוממתי עזר Rôwmamtîy ʻEzer H7320 Romamti-ezer
- רם Râm H7410 Ram
- רמיה Ramyâh H7422 Ramiah
- מרום Mêrôwm H4792 Merom
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 18 — not the complete family. 10 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 48 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 52 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
- Judges 5:18
- 2 Samuel 22:17
- 2 Kings 19:22
- Job 5:11
- Psalms 7:7
- Proverbs 8:2
- Ecclesiastes 10:6
- Isaiah 22:16
- Jeremiah 17:12
- Lamentations 1:13
- Ezekiel 17:23
- Obadiah 1:3
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.
