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title: רוּם — height · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: רוּם (lemma:רוּם), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 9 times: height. BDB 1906: n.m. height. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רוּם

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«רוּם» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **height** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** lemma:רוּם · **BDB:** רוּם²

### Glosses

height (5); lifting.up (2); it.rose.up (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

height [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5d5_5bc_5dd/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. height [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5d5_5bc_5dd/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dn 4:7 height;—sf. רוּמֵהּ, of temple Ezr 6:3, image Dn 3:1, tree in vision 4:7, 8, 17.

### Jastrow 1903

רוּם ³: height haughtiness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5d5_5bc_5dd/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** height. Targ. Y. Deut. XI, 18 על ר׳ ידכון on the highest point of your arm (v. גּוֹבַהּ). Targ. Is. XIV, 12, sq. Targ. O. Num. XXIII, 22; a. fr.—Y. Snh. X, 29ᵃ הוה ארונא … לר׳ וכ׳ the ark carried the priests high up and cast them down to the ground. B. Bath. IV, 2; ib. 61ᵃ, v. עוּמְקָא I. Lam. R. to IV, 15 ברוּמְהוֹן (some ed. ברוֹמֵיהֶן, pl.) of their high stature, v. שׁוּף I ch.; Lev. R. s. 16 ברומחין (corr. acc.); a. e.—Pl. רוֹמִין, רוֹמֵי. Sot. 48ᵇ, v. שׁוּט I ch.—V. מְרוֹמָא I. haughtiness. Targ. Ps. LXXIII, 8.—V. רָמוּתָא.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רוּם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5d5_5bc_5dd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 4:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.7/)

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וְחֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י עַֽל־מִשְׁכְּבִ֑י חָזֵ֣ה הֲוֵ֔ית וַאֲל֥וּ אִילָ֛ן בְּג֥וֹא אַרְעָ֖א וְרוּמֵ֥הּ שַׂגִּֽיא׃

*Word for word:* and the.visions of my.head on bed my seeing I.was and lo! a.tree in the.midst of the.land and height its \[was\].great

*JPS 1917:* Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

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[Daniel 4:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.8/)

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רְבָ֥ה אִֽילָנָ֖א וּתְקִ֑ף וְרוּמֵהּ֙ יִמְטֵ֣א לִשְׁמַיָּ֔א וַחֲזוֹתֵ֖הּ לְס֥וֹף כָּל־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* it.grew.great the tree and it.grew.strong and height its it.reached to the heavens and the.sight of.it \[was\].to the.end of.all the land

*JPS 1917:* The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

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