Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H2438
חִירָם
Chiramkhee-rawm'
Hiram
22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Chîyrâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2438is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2438
Chiram or Chirom, the name of two Tyrians
The King James renders it: Hiram, Huram.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Chiram is rendered "Hiram". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Twenty-one of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 5:11Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.
2 Samuel 5:11חִירָ֨ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Hiram19
- to Hiram3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 22, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חִירָ֛ם3
- חִירָ֖ם3
- חִירָם֙3
- חִירָ֨ם2
- חִיר֜וֹם1
- חִיר֖וֹם1
- חִיר֔וֹם1
- חִירָ֗ם1
- חִירָ֣ם1
- חִירָ֤ם1
- חִירָ֔ם1
- חִירָ֑ם1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)19HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npm
2 Samuel
one use
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.
- חִירָ֨םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
1 Kings
twenty-one uses
Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.
- חִירָ֨םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
- חִירָ֛םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
And Solomon relayed this message to Hiram:
- חִירָ֖םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
When Hiram received Solomon’s message, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day! He has given David a wise son over this great people!”
- חִירָ֛םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying: “I have received your message; I will do all you desire regarding the cedar and cypress timber.
- חִירָם֙chiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,
- חִיר֜וֹםchiromproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
- לְחִירָ֜םlechirampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Hiram
- לְחִירָ֖םlechirampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Hiram
And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
- חִירָם֙chiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.
- חִיר֖וֹםchiromproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.
- חִירָ֖םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:
- חִיר֔וֹםchiromproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
- חִירָ֗םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
- חִירָ֛םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
- חִירָ֣םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
- לְחִירָם֙lechirampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Hiram
So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
- חִירָם֙chiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
- חִירָ֖םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
- חִירָ֤םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
(The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
- חִירָ֔םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- חִירָ֑םchiramproper noun (a name)tagged: Hiram
The letters
Gematria 258· 818 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.