Urim
אוּרִיםStrong’s H0224urim (u-rim)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Urim is the Hebrew word usually translated “urim” and “urim your”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.”
Meaning
- Urim = "lights"
How it's translated
- the urim 3
- to urim 2
- and urim your 1
- urim 1
- by urim 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- Exodus 1
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Ezra 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 8:8And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
- Numbers 27:21And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
- Deuteronomy 33:8And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
- 1 Samuel 14:41Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
- 1 Samuel 28:6And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
- Ezra 2:63And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
Hebrew dictionary
אוּרִים urim · Urim
Urim = "lights" stones kept in a pouch on the high-priest's breastplate, used in determining God's decision in certain questions and issues Also named: dēlos (δῆλος "Urim" G1212)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “urim” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
U'RIM, noun
[Heb.]
The urim and Thummim, among the Israelites, signify lights and perfections. These were a kind of ornament belonging to the habit of the high priest, in virtue of which he gave oracular answers to the people; but what they were has not been satisfactorily ascertained.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.