Hiram
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhaɪɹəm/
- A king of Tyre. (biblical character)
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Kings 5:1 ↗::
- 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.
- A male given name, taken into use by Puritans in the seventeenth century.
- 1994 Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills, Scribner's, ISBN 0684195569, page 8:
- 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.
- 1994 Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills, Scribner's, ISBN 0684195569, page 8:
- Hi (pet form)
- Spanish: Jirán
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