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1 Kings 9:11
“(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2438 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Chiram or Chirom, the name of two Tyrians
- Derivation
- or חִירוֹםlemma חִירֹם missing vav, corrected to חִירוֹם; another form of H2361 (חוּרָם);
- KJV renderings
- Hiram, Huram.
- Grammar
- חִירָ֣ם — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 26 times in the Hebrew Bible.2 Samuel 5:111 Kings 5:151 Kings 5:151 Kings 5:161 Kings 5:21
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חִירָם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.