Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H763
אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם
Aram Naharayimar-am' nah-har-ah'-yim
Mesopotamia
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼĂram Nahărayim
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H763is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H763
Aram of (the) two rivers (Euphrates and Tigris) or Mesopotamia
The King James renders it: Aham-naharaim, Mesopotamia.
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
Aram Naharayim is rendered "Mesopotamia". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
Genesis 24:10אֲרַ֥ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Aram4
- Naharaim4
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.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- אֲרַ֥ם2
- אֲרַ֣ם1
- אֲרַ֨ם1
- נַֽהֲרַ֖יִם1
- נַהֲרַ֖יִם1
- נַהֲרַ֜יִם1
- נַהֲרָ֑יִם1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)8HNpl
Genesis
two uses
Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
- אֲרַ֥םʾaramproper noun (a name)tagged: Aram
- נַֽהֲרַ֖יִםnaharayimproper noun (a name)tagged: Naharaim
Deuteronomy
two uses
For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
- אֲרַ֥םʾaramproper noun (a name)tagged: Aram
- נַהֲרַ֖יִםnaharayimproper noun (a name)tagged: Naharaim
Judges
two uses
Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.
- אֲרַ֣םʾaramproper noun (a name)tagged: Aram
- נַהֲרָ֑יִםnaharayimproper noun (a name)tagged: Naharaim
1 Chronicles
two uses
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
- אֲרַ֨םʾaramproper noun (a name)tagged: Aram
- נַהֲרַ֜יִםnaharayimproper noun (a name)tagged: Naharaim
The letters
Gematria 546· 1,666 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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.