אֲרָם

a.ramAram
hebrewOld TestamentName of a man143 occurrences13 books128 verses
This name belongs to 8 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Aram: Son of Shemer, descendant of Asher
  • Aram: Son of Shem, ancestor of the Arameans
  • Aram: Son of Kemuel, nephew of Abraham
  • Aram-maacah: Kingdom that fought against David
  • Edom: Descendants of Esau; enemy nation southeast of Israel
  • Mesopotamia: The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  • Paddan: The homeland of the patriarchs in Mesopotamia
  • Syria: Ancient region north of Israel, often in conflict

Definition

from the same as H759; the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite
Traditional renderings: Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.

Glossary entries

Edom, Edomites Syria, Syrians Mesopotamia Aram (Person) Paddan, Paddan-Aram Aram-maacah (Maachah)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

143 total
  1. 1 Kings 22:1אֲרָ֖ם · Aram
    Then three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.
  2. 1 Kings 22:3אֲרָֽם׃ · of Aram
    …who said to his servants, “Do you not know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, but we have failed to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?”
  3. 1 Kings 22:11אֲרָ֖ם · the Arameans
    Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
  4. 1 Kings 22:31אֲרָ֡ם · of Aram
    Now the king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel.”
  5. 1 Kings 22:35אֲרָ֑ם · the Arameans
    The battle raged throughout that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. And the blood from his wound ran out onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died.
  6. 2 Kings 5:1 (2×)אֲרָ֜ם · of Aram; לַאֲרָ֑ם · to Aram
    Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
  7. 2 Kings 5:2וַאֲרָם֙ · At this time the Arameans
    At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a young girl from the land of Israel, and she was serving Naaman’s wife.
  8. 2 Kings 5:5אֲרָם֙ · of Aram
    “Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.
  9. 2 Kings 6:8אֲרָ֔ם · of Aram
    Now the king of Aram was at war against Israel. After consulting with his servants, he said, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
  10. 2 Kings 6:9אֲרָ֥ם · the Arameans
    Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful not to pass by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
  11. 2 Kings 6:11אֲרָ֔ם · of Aram
    For this reason the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants to demand of them, “Tell me, which one of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
  12. 2 Kings 6:23אֲרָ֔ם · And the Aramean
    So the king prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. And the Aramean raiders did not come into the land of Israel again.
  13. 2 Kings 6:24אֲרָ֖ם · of Aram
    Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.
  14. 2 Kings 7:4אֲרָ֔ם · of the Arameans
    If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
  15. 2 Kings 7:5 (2×)אֲרָ֑ם · of the Arameans; אֲרָ֔ם
    So they arose at twilight and went to the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the outskirts of the camp, there was not a man to be found.
  16. 2 Kings 7:6אֲרָ֗ם · {had caused} the Arameans
    For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
  17. 2 Kings 7:10אֲרָ֔ם · the Aramean
    So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city, saying, “We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a trace—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.”
  18. 2 Kings 7:12אֲרָ֑ם · the Arameans
    So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
  19. 2 Kings 7:14אֲרָ֛ם · the Aramean
    Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”
  20. 2 Kings 7:15אֲרָ֖ם · the Arameans
    And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
  21. 2 Kings 7:16אֲרָ֑ם · of the Arameans
    Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
  22. 2 Kings 8:7אֲרָ֖ם · of Aram
    Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”
  23. 2 Kings 8:9אֲרָם֙ · of Aram
    So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
  24. 2 Kings 8:13אֲרָֽם׃ · Aram
    “But how could your servant, a mere dog, do such a monstrous thing?” said Hazael. And Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
  25. 2 Kings 8:28אֲרָ֖ם · of Aram
    Then Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.
  26. 2 Kings 8:29אֲרָ֑ם · of Aram
    So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
  27. 2 Kings 9:14אֲרָֽם׃ · of Aram
    Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,
  28. 2 Kings 9:15אֲרָ֑ם
    …but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”
  29. 2 Kings 12:17אֲרָ֔ם · of Aram
    At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem.
  30. 2 Kings 12:18אֲרָ֔ם · of Aram
    So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
  31. 2 Kings 13:3אֲרָ֗ם · of Aram
    So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them continually into the hands of Hazael king of Aram and his son Ben-hadad.
  32. 2 Kings 13:4אֲרָֽם׃ · of Aram
    Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel.
  33. 2 Kings 13:5אֲרָ֑ם · of the Arameans
    So the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel lived in their own homes as they had before.
  34. 2 Kings 13:7אֲרָ֔ם · of Aram
    Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
  35. 2 Kings 13:17 (2×)בַֽאֲרָ֔ם · over Aram; אֲרָ֛ם · the Arameans
    “Open the east window,” said Elisha. So he opened it and Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. And Elisha declared: “This is the LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram, for you shall strike the Arameans in Aphek until you have put an end to them.”
  36. 2 Kings 13:19 (2×)אֲרָ֖ם · Aram; אֲרָֽם׃ס · Aram
    But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”
  37. 2 Kings 13:22אֲרָ֔ם · of Aram
    And Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz.
  38. 2 Kings 13:24אֲרָ֑ם · of Aram
    When Hazael king of Aram died, his son Ben-hadad reigned in his place.
  39. 2 Kings 15:37אֲרָ֑ם · of Aram
    (In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)
  40. 2 Kings 16:5אֲ֠רָם · of Aram
    Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
  41. 2 Kings 16:6 (2×)אֲרָ֤ם · of Aram; לַֽאֲרָ֔ם · for Aram
    At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
  42. 2 Kings 16:7אֲרָ֗ם · of Aram
    So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”
  43. 2 Kings 24:2אֲרָ֜ם · Aramean
    And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
  44. 1 Chronicles 1:17וַאֲרָ֑ם · and Aram. [The sons of Aram:]
    The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
  45. 1 Chronicles 2:23וַ֠אֲרָם · and Aram
    But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.