Rumah — the meaning of the Hebrew name רוּמָה
רוּמָה
Rumah means height.
Built from
רוּם rûwm — to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively) open in the lexicon ›
Strong's definition
from H7311; height; Rumah, a place in Palestine.
First appearance
2Kgs 23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
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