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Merom

WATERS OF, or _lacus Samechonitis_: the most northern and the smallest of the three lakes which are supplied by the waters of the Jordan. Indeed the numerous branches of this river, descending from the mountains, unite in this small piece of water; Merom is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “eminences; elevations.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H4792
Hebrew
מֵרוֹם · Mêrôwm
Name meaning
eminences; elevations According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

מֵרוֹם

H4792
Transliteration
Mêrôwm
Pronunciation
may-rome'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

Merom.

Lexicon definition

Merom, a lake in Palestine

Greek lexical coverage

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Merom

eminences; elevations

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

MEROM

WATERS OF, or _lacus Samechonitis_: the most northern and the smallest of the three lakes which are supplied by the waters of the Jordan. Indeed the numerous branches of this river, descending from the mountains, unite in this small piece of water; out of which issues the single stream which may be considered as the Jordan Proper. It is at present called the lake of Houle; and is situated in a hollow or valley, about twelve miles wide, called the Ard Houle, formed by the Djebel Heish on the west, and Djebel Safat on the east, the two branches into which the mountains of Hasbeya, or Djebel Esheikh, the ancient Hermon, divides itself about fifteen miles to the north.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Merom

Indexed occurrences: 2

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Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

MEROM

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Indexed references: 1

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Merom

Meaning:
eminences; elevations

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eminences; elevations

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Pelicans

Are frequently met with at the waters of Merom and the Sea of Galilee. The pelican is ranked among unclean birds (Lev. 11:18; Deut. 14:17). It is of an enormous size, being about 6 feet long, with wings stretching out over 12 feet. The Hebrew name (kaath, i.e., "vomiter") of this bird is incorrectly rendered "cormorant" in the Authorized Version of Isa. 34:11 and Zeph. 2:14, but correctly in the Revised Version. It receives its Hebrew name from its habit of storing in its pouch large quantities of fish, which it disgorges when it feeds its young. Two species are found on the Syrian coast, the Pelicanus onocrotalus, or white pelican, and the Pelicanus crispus, or Dalmatian pelican.

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Zaanaim

Wanderings; the unloading of tents, so called probably from the fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that region, a place in the north-west of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in Naphtali. Here Sisera was slain by Jael, "the wife of Heber the Kenite," who had pitched his tent in the "plain [R.V., 'as far as the oak'] of Zaanaim" (Judg. 4:11). It has been, however, suggested by some that, following the LXX. and the Talmud, the letter b, which in Hebrew means "in," should be taken as a part of the word following, and the phrase would then be "unto the oak of Bitzanaim," a place which has been identified with the ruins of Bessum, about half-way between Tiberias and Mount Tabor.

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