Word study

Ram

6 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: ram, rams. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “ram” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • אַיִל ayilramtranslated this way 151 times of its 178 uses · Strong’s H352Noun  ·  Translated: ram 89, rams 59, side pillars 12, like rams 3

    Genesis 15:9 And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”

    Exodus 25:5 ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

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  • שׁוֹפָר shôphârhorntranslated this way 40 times of its 65 uses · Strong’s H7782Noun  ·  Translated: ram's horn 34, horn 12, horns 12, rams horns 5Full study and all 60 verses →
  • רָם RâmRamtranslated this way 7 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s H7410Noun  ·  Translated: Ram 7

    Ruth 4:19 Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab,

    1 Chronicles 2:9 The sons who were born to Hezron: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb.

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  • יוֹבֵל yôbêlram, ram's horn, cornettranslated this way 6 times of its 27 uses · Strong’s H3104Noun  ·  Translated: Jubilee 20, rams horns 4, ram's horn 1, last jubilee 1Full study and all 25 verses →
  • דְּכַר dekarramtranslated this way 3 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H1798Noun  ·  Translated: rams 3

    Ezra 6:9 Whatever is needed— young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem— must be given to them daily without fail.

    Ezra 6:17 For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.

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  • כַּר karbasket-saddletranslated this way 3 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s H3733Noun  ·  Translated: lambs 7, battering rams 3, pastures 2

    Ezekiel 4:2 Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

    Ezekiel 21:22 In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • Ἀράμ ArámRamtranslated this way 2 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s G689Noun  ·  Translated: Ram 2, Admin 1, Arni 1

    Matthew 1:3 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.

    Matthew 1:4 Ram was the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon.

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  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.