Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4792 - מֵרוֹם Merom (a place in Upper Galilee)

Original Word:	מֵרוֹם
Transliteration:	Merom
Definition:	a place in Upper Galilee
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(may-rome')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Merom

Formed like marowm; height; Merom, a lake in Palestine -- Merom.

see HEBREW marowm

Englishman's Concordance

Merom=“high place”
1) the lake in northern Canaan at which Joshua routed the northern confederacy headed by Jabin
1a) site uncertain; probably the lake formed by the Jordan river about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of the Sea of Galilee
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: formed like H4791

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מֵרוֺםproper name, of a location only in מֵי מֵרוֺםJoshua 11:5,7 waters of Merom, in Northern Canaan;=Lake Hule, according to Rel and many, but dubious, compare Di Bäd^{Pal. 3. 259} GASm^{Geogr, 481} Buhl^{Geogr. 113}.

מְרוֺן see שִׁמְרוֺן. מֵרוֺץ, I. [מְרוּצָה] see רוץ.

II. מְרוּצָה see רצץ. [מְרוּקִים] see I. מרק.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4792. מֵרוֹם (Merom) — 2 Occurrences

Joshua 11:5
HEB:אֶל־ מֵ֣י מֵר֔וֹם לְהִלָּחֵ֖ם עִם־
NAS: at the waters of Merom, to fight
KJV: at the waters of Merom, to fight
INT: at the waters of Merom to fight against

Joshua 11:7
HEB:עַל־ מֵ֥י מֵר֖וֹם פִּתְאֹ֑ם וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ
NAS: by the waters of Merom, and attacked
KJV: with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly;
INT: by the waters of Merom suddenly and attacked

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