מָרוֹםmârôwm

height

Pronunciation: maw-rome' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4791

Meanings

1. height, elevation, elevated place (Job 5:18; Proverbs 8:2; Obadiah 1:3)

2. = height of heaven (Micah 6:6; 2 Samuel 22:17; Psalms 18:17)

3. adverb figurative, = proudly (Psalms 56:3; Psalms 56:4)

4. figurative of nobles (collective) (Isaiah 24:4)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 54 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 5:18 But Zebulun risked his life, as did Naphtali, on the heights of the battlefield.
  • 2 Samuel 22:17 “He reached down from heaven and rescued me; he drew me out of deep waters.
  • 2 Kings 19:22 “Whom have you been defying and ridiculing? Against whom did you raise your voice? At whom did you look with such haughty eyes? It was the Holy One of Israel!
  • 2 Kings 19:23 By your messengers you have defied the Lord. You have said, ‘With my many chariots I have conquered the highest mountains— yes, the remotest peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars and its finest cypress trees. I have reached its farthest corners and explored its deepest forests.
  • Job 5:11 He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer.
  • Job 16:19 Even now my witness is in heaven. My advocate is there on high.
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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).