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title: זָרַם — pour forth in floods · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זָרַם (lemma:זָרַם), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: pour forth in floods. BDB 1906: vb. pour forth in floods, flood away. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זָרַם

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«זָרַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pour forth in floods** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:זָרַם · **BDB:** זָרַם

### Glosses

they.poured.forth (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pour forth in floods [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e8_5b7_5dd/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. pour forth in floods, flood away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e8_5b7_5dd/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pour forth in floods, flood away (Assyrian zarâmu, overwhelm, VR 36, 57 c DlPr73 \& in ZimBP119)— Pf. 2 ms. sf. זְרַמְתָּם ψ 90:5 thou floodest them with rain, sweepest them (men) away. Pf. 3 pl. זֹ֫רְמוּ מַ֫יִם עָבוֹת ψ 77:18 the cloud masses (Che) poured forth water.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זָרַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5e8_5b7_5dd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 77:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.18/)

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זֹ֤רְמוּ מַ֨יִם ׀ עָב֗וֹת ק֭וֹלנָתְנ֣וּ שְׁחָקִ֑ים אַף־חֲ֝צָצֶ֗יךָ יִתְהַלָּֽכוּ׃

*Word for word:* they.poured.forth water clouds a.sound they.gave.forth clouds also arrows your they.went.about

*JPS 1917:* The clouds flooded forth waters; the skies sent out a sound; Thine arrows also went abroad.

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