To rise
רוּםStrong’s H7313rum
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rum is the Aramaic word usually translated “lifting up”, “it rose up” and “have lifted yourself up”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.”
Meaning
- To rise(P'al) to be lifted up · (Aphel) to exalt · (Hithpolel) to lift oneself up
How it's translated
- and lifting up 1
- lifting up 1
- it rose up 1
- you have lifted yourself up 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:19In contextAnd for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
- Daniel 5:20In contextBut when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
- Daniel 5:23In contextBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
Aramaic dictionary
רוּם rum · to rise
1) to rise 1a) (P'al) to be lifted up 1b) (Aphel) to exalt 1c) (Hithpolel) to lift oneself up
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RISE, verb intransitive
rize. preterit tense rose; participle passive risen; pronoun rose, rizn. [See Raise.]
- To move to pass upward in any manner; to ascend; as, a fog rises from a river or from low ground; a fish rises in water; fowls rise in the air; clouds rise from the horizon towards the meridian; a balloon rises above the clouds.
- To get up; to leave the place of sleep or rest; as, to rise from bed.
- To get up or move from any recumbent to an erect posture; as, to rise after a fall.
- To get up from a seat; to leave a sitting posture; as, to rise from a sofa or chair.
All definitions and other forms of “rise”
- To spring; to grow; as a plant; hence, to be high or tall.
- To swell in quantity or extent; to be more elevated; as, a river rises after a rain.
- To break forth; to appear; as, a boil rises on the skin.
- To appear above the horizon; to shine; as, the sun or a star rises.“He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good” Matthew 5:45
- To begin to exist; to originate; to come into being or notice.
- To be excited; to begin to move or act; as, the wind rose at 12 o'clock.
- To increase in violence.
- To appear in view; as, to rise up to the reader's view.
- To appear in sight; also, to appear more elevated; as in sailing towards a shore, the land rises.
- To change a station; to leave a place; as, to rise from a siege.
- To spring; to be excited or produced.
- To gain elevation in rank, fortune or public estimation; to be promoted.“When the wicked rise men hide themselves” Proverbs 28:28
- To break forth into public commotions; to make open opposition to government; or to assemble and oppose government; or to assemble in arms for attacking another nation.
- To be excited or roused into action.“RISE up to the battle” Jeremiah 49:14
- To make a hostile attack; as when a man riseth against his neighbor.
- To increase; to swell; to grow more or greater.
- To be improved; to recover from depression; as, a family may rise after misfortune to opulence and splendor.
- To elevate the style or manner; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence.
- To be revived from death.“The dead in Christ shall rise first” 1 Thessalonians 4:16
- To come by chance.
- To ascend; to be elevated above the level or surface; as, the ground rises gradually one hundred yards.
- To proceed from.“A scepter shall rise out of Israel” Numbers 24:17
- To have its sources in.
- To be moved, roused, excited, kindled or inflamed, as passion.
- To ascend in the diatonic scale; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
- To amount.
- To close a session.
RISE, noun
rise
- The act of rising, either in a literal or figurative sense; ascent; as the rise of vapor in the air; the rise of mercury in the barometer; the rise of water in a river.
- The act of springing or mounting from the ground; as the rise of the feet in leaping.
- Ascent; elevation, or degree of ascent; as the rise of a hill or mountain.
- Spring; source; origin; as the rise of a stream in a mountain.
- Any place elevated above the common level; as a rise of land.
- Appearance above the horizon; as the rise of the sun or a star.
- Increase; advance; as a rise in the price of wheat.
- Advance in rank, honor, property or fame.
- Increase of sound on the same key; a swelling of the voice.
- Elevation or ascent of the voice in the diatonic scale; as a rise of a tone or semitone.
- Increase; augmentation.
- A bough or branch. [Not in use.]
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.