To flood
זָרַםStrong’s H2229zaram (za-ram)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zaram is the Hebrew word usually translated “poured forth” and “flood them”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.”
Meaning
- To pour out, pour forth in floods, flood away(Qal) to pour out, flood away · (Poal) to pour forth, pour out
How it's translated
- they poured forth 1
- you flood them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
זָרַם zaram · to flood
1) to pour out, pour forth in floods, flood away 1a) (Qal) to pour out, flood away 1b) (Poal) to pour forth, pour out 1b1) of God's power (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLOOD, noun
flud.
- A great flow of water; a body of moving water; particularly, a body of water, rising, swelling and overflowing land not usually covered with water.
- The flood by way of eminence, the deluge; the great body of water which inundated the earth in the days of Noah.
- A river; a sense chiefly poetical.
- The flowing of the tide; the semi-diurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; opposed to ebb.
All definitions and other forms of “flood”
- A great quantity; an inundation; an overflowing; abundance; superabundance; as a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
- A great body or stream of any fluid substance; as a flood of light; a flood of lava.
- Menstrual discharge.
FLOOD, verb transitive
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, to flood a meadow.
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.