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“See That Ye Are Not Lifted Up”: The Name Zoram and Its Paronomastic Pejoration - Matthew L. Bowen

March 18, 2016

The most likely etymology for the name Zoram is a third person singular perfect pôʿal form of the Semitic/Hebrew verb *zrm, with the meaning, “He [God] has poured forth in floods.” However, the name could also have been heard and interpreted as a theop...