H763: אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם
ʼĂram Nahărayim · pronounced ar-am' nah-har-ah'-yim · “Mesopotamia”
Definition
Aram of (the) two rivers (Euphrates and Tigris) or Mesopotamia
KJV translates it as: Aham-naharaim, Mesopotamia.
Word origin: from H758 (אֲרָם) and the dual of H5104 (נָהָר);
Extended definition
Mesopotamia
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H763 is translated
- aram ×5
- naharaim ×5
Bible verses with H763 (ʼĂram Nahărayim)
ʼăram nahărayim appears in 4 verses.
- Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
- Deuteronomy 23:4
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
- Judges 3:8
Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan–rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan–rishathaim eight years.
- 1 Chronicles 19:6
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria–maachah, and out of Zobah.