Bible Names

Huram: meaning of the name

Huram means “their liberty; their whiteness; their hole.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Huram in Hebrew and Greek

חִירָם H2438

Chîyrâm (khee-rawm') — Chiram or Chirom, the name of two Tyrians

or חִירוֹםlemma חִירֹם missing vav, corrected to חִירוֹם; another form of H2361 (חוּרָם);

People named Huram in the Bible

Huram in Scripture

“Huram” appears in 11 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Chronicles 8:5

    And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.

  • 2 Chronicles 2:3

    And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.

  • 2 Chronicles 2:11

    Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the Lord hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.

  • 2 Chronicles 2:12

    Huram said moreover, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Chronicles 2:13

    And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

  • 2 Chronicles 4:11

    And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;

  • 2 Chronicles 4:16

    The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the Lord of bright brass.

  • 2 Chronicles 8:2

    That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.