hiram
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
Definition of hiram
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
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A king of Tyre. (biblical character)
“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.”
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A king of Tyre. (biblical character)
“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.”
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A male given name from Hebrew, taken into use by Puritans in the seventeenth century.
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew חִירָם (Ḥirám, “high-born”), possibly from Phoenician, or a shortened form of אֲחִירָם ('aḥirám, “brother of the exalted”).
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