Lexicon
רוּם
rum
H7314
A:N-M Hebrew

height

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Hebrew
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rum denotes vertical extent, explicitly used for the stated measurements of a gold image and God's house.

The clearly displayed use is a stated vertical dimension: Daniel 3:1 gives the gold image's measurement, and Ezra 6:3 gives that of the house of God. The same construct-form noun also occurs in Daniel 4:7, Daniel 4:8, and Daniel 4:17, though the supplied translation does not isolate its contribution in those clauses.

Senses in use

  1. Stated vertical dimension · dominant

    In Daniel 3:1, construct-form רוּמֵ occurs in the clause that the APB renders, “Its height was sixty cubits,” for the gold image. In Ezra 6:3, the same morphology appears where the APB renders the house's measurement as “its height sixty cubits”; Daniel 4:7, Daniel 4:8, and Daniel 4:17 have the same form and morphology, but their supplied APB clauses do not make the term's specific contribution visible.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly presents the term in dimensional clauses as “height” in Daniel 3:1 and Ezra 6:3. In Daniel 4:7, Daniel 4:8, and Daniel 4:17, the translation does not visibly identify a corresponding English expression, so its rendering there cannot be isolated.

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