רָאַם
râʼam · H7213 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to stand high
State in which an object is located in a high position
ExamplesZechariah 14:10 All the land will change into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- רוּם rûwm · H7311 · to be high, to become high, to mount up
- Common Hebrew verb for being lifted up or exalted; shares the semantic field of elevation and height with רָאַם.
Contrasting words 2 words
- שָׁפֵל shâphêl · H8213 · to become low, to be low
- Verb expressing lowness or being brought down; direct lexical opposite of being lifted up or exalted.
- יָרַד yârad · H3381 · to go down, to come down, to fall down
- Common verb for descending or going down; opposes the upward motion implied by רָאַם.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ὑψόω hypsóō · G5312 · to raise up, to lift up, to give high position to
- Standard Greek equivalent for Hebrew verbs of lifting up or being exalted; both convey elevation in height or status.
- ἐπαίρω epaírō · G1869 · to raise, to have courage, to lift the head
- Greek verb for physical or metaphorical lifting; shares the core sense of elevation with רָאַם.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The word means to be lifted up or rise, illustrated by the promise that "Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site" after the land is leveled around it (Zechariah 14:10).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7213. raam [רָאַם] verb (Masora Thes and others) rise (si vera lectio, || form of רום);…
[רָאַם] verb (Masora Thes and others) rise (si vera lectio, || form of רום); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular רָאֲמָה Zec 14:10, but < read רָאמָה = רָ֫מָה (√רום), Ges§ 72p.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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