Lexical Definition

‎מָרוֹם‎ mârôwm (maw-rome') height ^H:N-M
from ‎רוּם‎

(far) above, dignity, haughty, height, (most, on) high (one, place), loftily, upward.

• altitude, i.e. concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)

1) height
1a) height, elevation, elevated place
1a1) in a high place (adv)
1b) height
1c) proudly (adv)
1d) of nobles (fig.)

See Greek: κραυγή · ὄρος · οὐρανός · ὕψιστος · ὕψος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎מָרוֺם‎ noun masculine^{Eccl 10:6} height (poetry); — absolute ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Mic 6:6 +; construct ‎מְרוֺם‎ 2Kgs 19:23 +; plural ‎מְרוֺמִים‎ Isa 33:16 +; construct ‎מְרוֺמֵי‎ Judg 5:18 suffix ‎מְרוֺמָיו‎ Job 25:2 —

1. height, elevation (concrete), elevated place: ‎מְרוֺמֵי שָׂדֶה‎ Job 5:18, ‎בְּראֹשׁ מְרֹמִים‎ Prov 8:2 ‎מְרוֺם שִׁבְתּוֺ‎ Obad 1:3 (compare Now), ‎מְרוֺם גִּבְעָה‎ in || Jer 49:16 ‎הָרִים‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ top of mountains 2Kgs 19:23 = Isa 37:24a, ‎קִצּוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ vIsa 37:24 b; ‎עֻזָּהּ‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Jer 51:53 (of Babylonian ); specifically of Zion, ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Jes Jer 17:12, ‎׳‎‎מ‎ ‎צִיּוֺן‎ Jer 31:12, ‎יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ ‎׳‎‎בְּהַר מ‎ Ezek 17:23; Ezek 20:40, ‎׳‎‎יִשׂ‎ ‎׳‎‎בְּהָרֵי מ‎ Ezek 34:14 indefinite, Hab 2:9 (in figurative), ‎׳‎‎לָשׂוּם שְׁפָלִים לְמ‎ Job 5:11 ‎בַּמְּרוֺמִים רַבִּים‎ Esc Job 10:6 (of high office, rank; opposed to ‎שֵׁפֶל‎); ‎ישְׁבֵי מָרוֺם‎ Isa 26:5, i.e. in (supposed) security, compare ‎מְרוֺמִים יִשְׁכֹּן‎ Isa 33:16 (|| ‎מְצָדוֺת סְלָעִים‎); ‎׳‎‎לַמּ‎ on high (German in die H-he) Ps 75:6*, so ‎׳‎‎בַּמּ‎ Job 39:18, adverb = in a high place Isa 22:16.

2. ‎׳‎‎מ‎ alone = height of heaven: ‎אֱלֹהֵי מָרוֺם‎ Mic 6:6; 2Sam 22:17=Ps 18:17*; Isa 24:21. 21; Isa 32:15; Isa 57:15; Isa 58:4; Lam 1:13; Ps 7:8*; Ps 68:19*; Ps 71:19; Ps 93:4; Ps 144:7, plural Job 25:2 || ‎שָׁמַיִם‎, ‎קָדְשׁוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Ps 102:20* ‎מְרוֺמִים‎ Job 16:19; Ps 148:1 || ‎מְעוֺן קָדְשׁוֺ‎ Jer 25:30, || ‎מָ֑עַל‎ Job 31:2 (plural), opposed to ‎מוֺסְדֵי אֶרֶץ‎ Isa 24:18.; as predicate of ‎׳‎‎י‎ Ps 92:9* compare Ps 10:5 as adverb (i.e. in heaven) Isa 33:5 ‎׳‎‎לַמּ‎ towards heaven Isa 38:14; Isa 40:26; Isa 37:23 = 2Kgs 19:22 ‎׳‎‎מִמּ‎ in figure Ps 73:8 they speak (as if) from the sky, from heaven (i.e. so arrogantly).

3. ‎׳‎‎מ‎ adverb figurative, = proudly Ps 56:3* (so Gei Hup-Now and others, compare Che, but dubious), Bae in high station; Du reads ‎מַריוֺם‎ (‎יוֺם‎ to vPs 56:4* as dittograph?).

4. figurative of nobles (collective) ‎מְרוֺם עַםהָֿאָרֶץ‎ Isa 24:4.

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