Strong's Hebrew · H7311

H7311 rûwm

רוּם

room

to exalt

rûwm appears 190 times in Scripture, including Genesis 7:17 and Exodus 7:20. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)

In the King James Version

bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (× a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 190 times in Scripture

Genesis 39:18

“but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.””

Genesis 7:17

“For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.”

Genesis 14:22

“But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,”

Exodus 7:20

“Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was turned to blood.”

Exodus 15:2

“The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.”

Exodus 14:16

“And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.”

Genesis 41:44

“And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.””

Genesis 39:15

“When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.””

Exodus 14:8

“And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly.”

Genesis 31:45

“So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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Strong's concordance glosses from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0). Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain.

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