דָּרוֹם
dârôwm · H1864 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences
Place
- Negebfirst named in Genesis 12:937 verses
Meanings
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south
A reference to the direction to the right of a person facing the sunrise
ExamplesDeuteronomy 33:23 Of Naphtali he said, “Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the blessing of the LORD, Take possession of the sea and the south.”
Ecclesiastes 1:6 Blowing toward the south, Then turning toward the north, The wind continues swirling along; And on its circular courses the wind returns.
Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds are full, they pour out rain on the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it lies.
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south wind
A wind coming from the south
ExamplesJob 37:17 You whose garments are hot When the land is still because of the south wind?
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שַׁעַרgate 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָרַשׁto possess, to drive out, to inherit 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פֶּתַחentrance, doorway 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- אֵלto, toward 4
- מִןfrom 2
- בin/on/with 2
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
10 occurrences in 4 groups
- דֶּרֶךְway, road 7
- לִשְׁכָּהroom 1
- רוּחַspirit, wind 1
- שַׁעַרgate 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- νότος nótos · G3558 · south, south wind
- Greek νότος is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew דָּרוֹם for the directional sense "south."
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Spatial Referents003002005
- דָּרוֹם denotes the south as a directional and spatial reference point, used throughout Ezekiel's temple vision and elsewhere to orient the compass points.
- Air001002005001
- דָּרוֹם is also associated with the south wind in a few contexts, tying the directional term to the warm wind that blows from that quarter.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1864. darom דָּרוֺם noun masculine south (in poetry & late) (on formation compare Ol§…
דָּרוֺם noun masculine south (in poetry & late) (on formation compare Ol§ 216 a Sta§ 295) — דָּרוֺם Job 37:17 Job 37:14t. + Eze 40:27b; Eze 40:28b (strike out ᵑ6 Co in Eze 40:27b Eze 40:27 b; AB ᵑ9 Co in Ezekiel 27b Eze 40:28 b — south, Eze 42:18 (over against יָם צָפוֺן, קָדִים,); 12 t. more in Ezekiel (of which Co strike out 2, compare above) Eze 21:2 (= תֵּימָנָה and נֶגֶב); הַדּ ׳דֶּרֶךְ toward south Eze 40:24 (twice in verse); Eze 40:27, read also הַדּ ׳דֶּרֶךְ Eze 42:10 for ᵐ5 ׳ד הַקָּדִים Ke Co; הַדּ ׳שַׁעַר south gate 40:[27]; Eze 40:28 compare Co above, Eze 40:44 (opposed to צפון; also קדים), Eze 40:45 (opposed to צפון) Eze 42:12 = ׳לַדָּ Eze 41:11 (opposed to צפון), הד ׳לִשְׁכוֺת Eze 42:13 (opposed to צפון). Elsewhere only Deu 33:23 (|| יַם), Job 37:17; Ecc 1:6; Ecc 11:3 (both opposed to צפון).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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