רוֹמָם
praise
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
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 H7318 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Psalms 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.
“praise” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun רומם (rôwmâm). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Psalms. Found nowhere else but Psalms 66:17. It shares a root with רמם, רוממה and רמה. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7318 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: not separately translated
- Berean Standard Bible: May the high praises 1×, Praised him 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He was exalted 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Does not render H7318 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7318 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7318 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- (Polal) praise, exaltation, extolling
Word origin
Derived from רמם (râmam) (H7426) — to be exalted.
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.
רוּם
- (b. h.) [to swing,] to be high, lifted up; to rise. Ab. Zar. 24ᵇ רוֹמִי רומי השיטה Ar. (ed. רוני) rise, rise, acacia (holy ark)!; Gen. R. s. 54 רומי השטה.
- 1. to lift up, raise. Cant. R. to III, 4 (ref. to Ps. LXXV, 8) ישפיל … ויָרִים לכרש וכ׳ he shall lower Belshazzar, and lift up Cyrus and Darius; Yalk. Ps. 812 אני הוא משפיל ומֵרִים I lower and raise; מלכות … מרים he lays low one empire and raises another empire &c.; a. e. e.g. Psalms 75:8
- 2. to take off, remove. Ruth R. to I, 17 (ref. to Ez. XXI, 31) הסר … והָרִים העטרה וכ׳ remove the bonnet from our teachers, and take the crown off the nations; a. e. e.g. Ezekiel 21:31
- to be taken off, esp. to be separated as an offering, priest’s share &c.; to be consecrated. Ḥall. II, 8 שלא הוּרְמָה חלתה (not הורם), v. חַלָּה. Sifré Num. 110 (ref. to Num. IV, 20) את שמוּרָם קודש וכ׳ that which is separated is to be sacred, and the remainder secular, but (no Ḥallah is to be taken,) when both would be sacred. Zeb. V, 6 המורם מהם וכ׳ the same rules apply to what is taken off them for the priest; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 4:20
- to lift up, elevate. Tanḥ. Matt. 6; Num. R. s. 22, end (ref. to Num. XXXI, 9 and XXXII, 1) הא שהשפיל … ור׳ וכ׳ here you see that the Lord lowered the Midianites, and raised the Israelites. Ib. (ref. to I Sam. II, 7) אף … מְרוֹמֵם את זה in the anger which he brings to bear on one, he raises the other. Pesik. R. s. 10 (ref. to Ps. LXXV, 8) משפיל לכל … ומרומם וכ׳ he lowered every one that had part in the worship of the golden calf, and elevated every one that had no part &c. Ib. ועכשיו … אף כך רוֹמֵם ראשם and now that thou hast lifted up my head, lift thou up their head likewise; לך ר׳ ראשם go and lift up their heads (announce to them the divine pardon). Ib. (ref. to Ex. XXX, 12) כל מה שאתה יכול לרוֹמֵם … רוֹמְמָהּ שבאילו לי אתה מְרוֹמֵם (not רומם) in whatever way thou canst elevate that nation elevate it, for by this thou elevatest me. Ex. R. s. 25 ורִימְּמָן הקב"ה וכ׳ (fr. רָמַם) and the Lord raised them above all; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 31:9
- , Nithpol. נִתְרוֹמֵם to be lifted up; to pride one’s self. Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵃ top יתגדל … ויתברך ויִתְרוֹמַם שמך וכ׳ thy Name be magnified … and blessed and lifted up (praised) for &c.; Y. Taan. I, 64ᵃ top; Gen. R. s. 13. Meg. 17ᵇ כיון … מִתְרוֹמֶמֶת קרן וכ׳ when the transgressors cease to exist, the horn of the righteous will be uplifted. Num. R. s. 22; Tanḥ. Matt. 6, a. e. אין אדם מִתְרוֹמֵם, v. רוֹמֵמוּת. Tanḥ. Mick. 3 ונִתְרוֹמְמוּ and they were raised (to power); a. e.—[Yalk. Gen. 79 מתרוממות, read: מְתַמְּרִין, v. תָּמַר.]
רוּם ²
- , to be high. Targ. Ps. LXXXIX, 14. Targ. O. Deut. VIII, 14 וִירַם ed. Berl. (oth. ed. וִירִים, וְרִים); a. fr.—2) to lift; to remove. Targ. Ps. LXXXIX, 18 תְּרִים.—Y. Bets. I, 60ᶜ bot. ורִימוּנָהּ and they lifted it. Y. Snh. X, 29ᵃ bot. כיון דרִימֵיה when he had removed it. Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 43ᵈ מן דרִימוֹן when he had removed them (the stones); a. e.
- 1. to swing; to wave an offering; to uplift. Targ. Ex. VII, 20. Targ. O. ib. XVII, 11 מַרִים ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. יְרִים). Targ. Is. XXX, 28 (h. text להנפה). Targ. Lev. XXIII, 11 (h. text והניף); a. fr.—Part. pass. מְרִים; f. pl. מְרִימָן. Targ. Is. III, 16 (h. text נטויות).
- 2. to lift take off, remove. Lam. R. to V, 5 אֲרִימוּן ראשיה מיניה cut his head off. Y. Ab. Zar. l. c. בחייך דאת מֵרִים אילין וכ׳ by thy life! thou must remove these stones; a. e.
- 1. to be uplifted, rise. Targ. Gen. VII, 17; a. e.
- 2. to be swung, waved (as an offering). Targ. Ex. XXIX, 27 (h. text הונף); a. e.
- 3. to be taken off, removed. Lam. R. to V, 16 והא ניחא ליה דאיתרים רישיה וכ׳ it would have been better for him that his head be cut off rather than do this; Koh. R. to X, 5 נייח הוה דיִיתְּרִים וכ׳; Y. Sot. IX, 24ᵇ sq. נייח ליה אילו איתרים וכ׳.
- to elevate, extol. Targ. Ps. XXXVII, 34. Ib. CXLV, 1. Targ. Y. I Deut. XXXII, 3; a. e.—Part. pass. מְרוֹמַם. Targ. Ps. XVIII, 47 (not מרומֵם); Targ. II Sam. XXII, 47; a. e.—V. מְרָמַם.
- to be lifted up; to be extolled. Targ. Ps. CVII, 25. Ib. LXXV, 11. Ib. CVIII, 6; a. e.—Y. Maas. Sh. IV, end, 55ᶜ את מִתְרוֹמְמָא, v. הֲדָרָא.
- , contr. רוֹרֵם, רָרֵם to elevate. Targ. Ps. IX, 14 מְרוֹרֵם Ms. (ed. מְרוֹמֵם). Ib. XXVII, 5. Targ. Prov. XVII, 19 מְרָרֵים Ms. (ed. מרים, מורים). Ib. XIV, 34.
- , contr. אִתְרוֹרַם, אִתְרָרַם
- 1. to be elevated, rise. Targ. Ps. LVII, 6; 12. Targ. Prov. XI, 11; a. e.
- 2. to be haughty, proud. Ib. XVIII, 12.—Apocopated form: אִתְרַמַּר. Ib. VI, 30 לא למִתְרַמָרוּ וכ׳ ed. (h. text יבוזו) let them not look haughtily down on the thief &c.; v. דְּמַר.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7318, 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
- רוממה rôwmᵉmâh H7319 uplifting
- רמה rimmâh H7415 maggot
- רמון rimmôwn H7416 pomegranate
- רממת rômêmuth H7427 uplifting
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