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Lexicon :: Strong's H758 - 'ărām

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אֲרָם
Transliteration
'ărām
Pronunciation
arawm'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as אַרְמוֹן (H759)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 163

Strong’s Definitions

אֲרָם ʼĂrâm, arawm'; from the same as H759; the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite:—Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 132x

The KJV translates Strong's H758 in the following manner: Syria (67x), Syrians (56x), Aram (7x), Syriadamascus (with H4601) (1x), Syriamaachah (with H4601) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 132x
The KJV translates Strong's H758 in the following manner: Syria (67x), Syrians (56x), Aram (7x), Syriadamascus (with H4601) (1x), Syriamaachah (with H4601) (1x).
proper masculine noun
  1. Aram or Arameans = "exalted"

    1. Aram or Syria the nation

    2. the Syrian or Aramean people

      masculine noun
  2. Aram = "exalted"

    1. fifth son of Shem

    2. a grandson of Nahor

    3. a descendant of Asher

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲרָם ʼĂrâm, arawm'; from the same as H759; the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite:—Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.
STRONGS H758: Abbreviations
אֲרָם 149 proper name, masculine Aram (Assyrian Aramu, etc., see DlPa 257; Thes and others propose √ ארם = רום but compare Nö as below) —
1. 5th son of Shem Genesis 10:22, 23; 1 Chronicles 1:17.
2. grandson of Nahor Genesis 22:21.
4. a descendant of Asher 1 Chronicles 7:34. — Elsewhere only of Aramæan people & land (= 1 above), feminine 2 Samuel 8:5 masculine 2 Samuel 10:14.
a. people, singular collective = the Aramæans, a leading branch of the Shemitic stock inhabiting Mesopotamia & northern Syria, in many tribes & settlements; 2 Samuel 8:5 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 8:6 + 1 Kings 20:20, 21 + 1 Chronicles 19:10, 12 + (64 times Samuel Kings Chronicles) Amos 9:7; Isaiah 7:2, 4, 5, 8; Isaiah 9:11; Isaiah 17:3; Jeremiah 35:11; so Ezekiel 16:57; Ezekiel 27:16, but Co in both אדום עַם אֲרָם Amos 1:5; of particular divisions of Aram, בית רְחוֺב א׳ 2 Samuel 10:6, צוֺבָא א׳ 2 Samuel 10:6, 8; [H760 Psalm 60:2 [Psalm 60:1] (title)], דַּמֶּשֶׂק א׳ 2 Samuel 8:5 compare 1 Chronicles 18:5,
[H763 even נַהֲרַיִם א׳ Psalm 60:2 [Psalm 60:1] (title)];
(note that Assyrian never gives name Aramu to people west of Euphrates, but Chatti instead, with other particular names, COT Genesis 10:22, also Dll.c.); on 2 Samuel 8:12, 13; 1 Chronicles 18:11 see אֱדוֺם.
b. less often clearly of land, Aram Numbers 23:7; 2 Samuel 15:8; 2 Chronicles 20:2 (read however here אדום Thes Add and others), שְׂדֵה א׳ Hosea 12:13;
[H763 also of particular divisions of the territory נַהֲרַיִם א׳ 'Mesopotamia,' i.e. probably land between Euphrates & Chaboras, so Di after Kiep, Genesis 24:10; Deuteronomy 23:5 [Deuternonomy 23:4]; Judges 3:8 (compare Psalm 60:2 [Psalm 60:1] above]);
compare א׳ פַּדַּן Paddan-Aram Genesis 25:20; Genesis 31:18; Genesis 33:18; Genesis 35:9, 26; Genesis 46:15, א׳ פַּדֶּ֫נָה Genesis 28:2, 5, 6, 7 see פדן; דַּמֶּשֶׂק א׳ 2 Samuel 8:6 compare 1 Chronicles 18:6.
c. often indeterminate, especially in מֶלֶךְ א׳ etc., perhaps primarily land but often including people: so Judges 2:11; Judges 10:6 (אֱלֹהֵי א׳) 1 Kings 10:29 2 Chronicles 1:17 + (41 times Kings & Chronicles) Isaiah 7:1. — (compare especially NöSehenkel BL, ZMG 1871, 113; Hermes see 3, 443 f. DlPa 257.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:22; 10:22; 10:23; 22:21; 25:20; 28:2; 28:5; 28:6; 28:7; 31:18; 33:18; 35:9; 35:26; 46:15

Numbers

23:7

Judges

2:11; 10:6

2 Samuel

8:5; 8:5; 8:5; 8:6; 8:6; 8:12; 8:13; 10:6; 10:6; 10:8; 10:14; 15:8

1 Kings

10:29; 20:20; 20:21

1 Chronicles

1:17; 2:23; 7:34; 18:5; 18:6; 18:11; 19:10; 19:12

2 Chronicles

1:17; 20:2

Isaiah

7:1; 7:2; 7:4; 7:5; 7:8; 9:11; 17:3

Jeremiah

35:11

Ezekiel

16:57; 27:16

Hosea

12:13

Amos

1:5; 9:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H758 matches the Hebrew אֲרָם ('ărām),
which occurs 133 times in 118 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (2Ki 7:6–2Ch 22:5)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - For the Lord had made the army of the Arameans H758 hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, that is, the sound of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians against us, to [fn]attack us!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans H758, and behold, there was no one there, nor a human voice; only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans H758 have done to us. They know that we are hungry; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:14 - Therefore they took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the army of the Arameans H758, saying, “Go and see.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:15 - They went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans H758 had thrown away when they fled in a hurry. Then the messengers returned and informed the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:16 -

So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans H758. Then a [fn]measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two [fn]measures of barley for a shekel, in accordance with the word of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:7 -

Then Elisha came to Damascus. Now Ben-hadad, the king of Aram H758, was sick, and it was told to him, saying, “The man of God has come here.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift in his hand, even every kind of good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ loads; and he came and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram H758 has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:13 - Then Hazael said, “But what is your servant—a lowly dog—that he could do this great thing?” And Elisha [fn]answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram H758.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:28 -

Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram H758 at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans [fn]wounded Joram.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - So King Joram returned to have himself healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had [fn]inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram H758. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:14 -

So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram [fn]with all Israel was [fn]defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram H758,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King [fn]Joram had returned to Jezreel to have himself healed of the wounds which the Arameans had [fn]inflicted on him when he fought Hazael king of Aram H758. So Jehu said to the other men, “If this is your [fn]intent, then let no [fn]one escape from the city to go tell about it in Jezreel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:17 -

Then Hazael the king of Aram H758 went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and Hazael [fn]was intent on going up against Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:18 - So Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred offerings that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had consecrated, and his own sacred offerings, and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram H758. Then he withdrew from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:3 - So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He continually handed them over to Hazael king of Aram H758, and to Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:4 - Then Jehoahaz appeased the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram H758 oppressed them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:5 - And the LORD gave Israel a [fn]savior, so that they [fn]escaped from under the hand of the Arameans H758; and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as previously.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For he left to Jehoahaz no more of the [fn]army than fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, because the king of Aram H758 had eliminated them and made them like the dust at threshing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:17 - And he said, “Open the window toward the east,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. And he said, “The LORD’S arrow of victory, and the arrow of victory over Aram H758; for you will [fn]defeat the Arameans H758 at Aphek until you have put an end to them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:19 - Then the man of God became angry at him and said, “You should have struck five or six times, then you would have struck Aram H758 until you put an end to it. But now you shall strike Aram H758 only three times.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:22 -

Now Hazael king of Aram H758 had oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:24 -

When Hazael king of Aram H758 died, his son Ben-hadad became king in his place.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:37 - In those days the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Aram H758 and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:5 -

Then Rezin the king of Aram H758 and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem for war; and they besieged Ahaz, but [fn]were not capable of fighting him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:6 - At that time Rezin king of Aram H758 restored Elath to Aram H758, and drove the Judeans away from [fn]Elath; and the [fn]Arameans came to Elath and have lived there to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:7 -

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son; come up and save me from the [fn]hand of the king of Aram H758, and from the [fn]hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - And the LORD sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans H758, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:17 -

The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram H758, Uz, Hul, Gether, and [fn]Meshech.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 - But Geshur and Aram H758 took [fn]the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, sixty settlements. All of these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:34 - The sons of [fn]Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah, and Jehubbah and Aram H758.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:5 -

When the Arameans H758 of [fn]Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David [fn]killed twenty-two thousand men of the Arameans H758.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:6 - Then David put garrisons among the Arameans H758 of [fn]Damascus; and the Arameans H758 became servants to David, bringing tribute. And the LORD helped David wherever he went.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 -

When the sons of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent [fn]a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, Aram-maacah H758, and Zobah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:10 -

Now when Joab saw that the [fn]battle was set against him at the front and at the rear, he selected warriors from all the choice men in Israel and lined them up against the Arameans H758.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:12 - He said, “If the Arameans H758 are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the sons of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:14 - So Joab and the people who were with him advanced to battle against the Arameans H758, and they fled from him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15 - When the sons of Ammon saw that the Arameans H758 had fled, they also fled from his brother Abshai and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:16 -

When the Arameans H758 saw that they had been [fn]defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought out the Arameans H758 who were beyond the Euphrates River, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer [fn]leading them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:17 - When it was reported to David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan, and came upon them and drew up in formation against them. And when David drew up in battle formation against the Arameans H758, they fought against him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:18 - And the Arameans H758 fled from Israel, and David killed of the Arameans H758 seven thousand charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers; and he put Shophach the commander of the army to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:19 - So when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been [fn]defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and served him. So the Arameans H758 were not willing to help the sons of Ammon anymore.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:17 - They [fn]imported chariots from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver apiece, horses for 150 apiece, and [fn]by the same means they [fn]exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram H758.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:2 - Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the king’s house, and sent it to Ben-hadad king of Aram H758, who lived in Damascus, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:7 -

At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram H758 and have not relied on the LORD your God, for that reason the army of the king of Aram H758 has escaped from your hand.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:10 - Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans H758 until they are destroyed!’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:30 - Now the king of Aram H758 had commanded the commanders of his chariots, saying, “Do not fight with the small or great, but only with the king of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:34 - The battle raged on that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot in front of the Arameans H758 until the evening; and at sunset he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:2 - Then some came and reported to Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from [fn]Aram H758; and behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar (that is Engedi).”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:5 - He also walked by their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to wage war against Hazael king of Aram H758 at Ramoth-gilead. But the Arameans [fn]wounded [fn]Joram.

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