hiram
/ˈhaɪɹəm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A male given name from Hebrew, taken into use by Puritans in the seventeenth century.
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Example Sentences
- "And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David."
- "Harm. It wasn't even a nickname. It was just the way folks had always pronounced his first name Hiram, in mountain dialect, a long "i" sound blending the two syllables into an aspirated breath."
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew חִירָם (Ḥirám, “high-born”), possibly from Phoenician, or a shortened form of אֲחִירָם ('aḥirám, “brother of the exalted”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: חִירָם, -