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Ezekiel 27:16
“Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H758 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite
- Derivation
- from the same as H759 (אַרְמוֹן); the highland;
- KJV renderings
- Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.
- Grammar
- אֲרָ֥ם — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 133 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 10:22Genesis 10:23Genesis 22:21Numbers 23:7Judges 3:10
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 אֲרָם 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.