דָּרוֹםdârôwm
south (Job 37:17; Ezekiel 40:27; Ezekiel 40:28; Ezekiel 27:1-200; Ezekiel 42:18)
Pronunciation: daw-rome' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1864
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 33:23 Moses said this about the tribe of Naphtali: “O Naphtali, you are rich in favor and full of the Lord’s blessings; may you possess the west and the south.”
- Job 37:17 When you are sweltering in your clothes and the south wind dies down and everything is still,
- Ecclesiastes 1:6 The wind blows south, and then turns north. Around and around it goes, blowing in circles.
- Ecclesiastes 11:3 When clouds are heavy, the rains come down. Whether a tree falls north or south, it stays where it falls.
- Ezekiel 20:46 “Son of man, turn and face the south and speak out against it; prophesy against the brushlands of the Negev.
- Ezekiel 40:24 Then the man took me around to the south gateway and measured its various parts, and they were exactly the same as in the others.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).