Ram
רָםStrong’s H7410ram
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ram is the Hebrew word usually translated “ram”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,”
Meaning
- A Judaite, son of Hezron, father of Amminadab, and ancestor of David
- A Judaite, son of Jerahmeel
- A kindred of Elihu, the friend of Job
- A Judaite, son of Hezron, father of Amminadab, and ancestor of David
- A Judaite, son of Jerahmeel
- A kindred of Elihu, the friend of Job
- A Judaite, son of Hezron, father of Amminadab, and ancestor of David
- A Judaite, son of Jerahmeel
- A kindred of Elihu, the friend of Job
How it's translated
- ram 5
- and ram 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 4
- Ruth 1
- Job 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 2:9The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
- 1 Chronicles 2:10And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
- 1 Chronicles 2:25And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.
- 1 Chronicles 2:27And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
- Job 32:2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
Hebrew dictionary
רָם ram · Ram
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at Rut.4.19; son of: Hezron (H2696H); brother of: Jerahmeel (H3396), Caleb (H3612H), Segub (H7687H) and Ashhur (H0806); father of: Amminadab (H5992); also called Admin (KJV: Aram) at Luk.3.33; § Ram = "high" or "exalted" 1) a Judaite, son of Hezron, father of Amminadab, and ancestor of David 2) a Judaite, son of Jerahmeel 3) a kindred of Elihu, the friend of Job
רָם ram · Ram
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ch.2.25; son of: Jerahmeel (H3396); brother of: Bunah (H0946), Oren (H0767), Ozem (H0684H), Ahijah (H0281J) and Onam (H0208H); father of: Maaz (H4619), Jamin (H3226H) and Eker (H6134) § Ram = "high" or "exalted" 1) a Judaite, son of Hezron, father of Amminadab, and ancestor of David 2) a Judaite, son of Jerahmeel 3) a kindred of Elihu, the friend of Job
רָם ram · Ram
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Job.32.2; progenitor of Buzites (H0940) § Ram = "high" or "exalted" 1) a Judaite, son of Hezron, father of Amminadab, and ancestor of David 2) a Judaite, son of Jerahmeel 3) a kindred of Elihu, the friend of Job
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ram” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAM, noun
[See the Verb.]
- The male of the sheep or ovine genus; in some parts of England called a tup.
- In astronomy, Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters on the 21st of March, or a constellation of fixed stars in the figure of a ram It is considered the first of the twelve signs.
- An engine of war, used formerly for battering and demolishing the walls of cities; called a battering-ram. [See Battering-ram.]
All definitions and other forms of “ram”
RAM, verb transitive
[Latin ramus, a branch that is a shoot or thrust. Heb. See Cram.]
- To thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive down or together; as, to ram down a cartridge; to ram piles into the earth.
- To drive, as with a battering ram
- To stuff; to cram.
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.