Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
south
Usage: south
Darom means “south” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1864 — epagonizomai (“earnestly contend for”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1864 דָּרוֹם (darowm) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. darowm (daw-rome') n-m. 1. the south 2. poet. the south wind It has 14 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include south. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
darowm (daw-rome') n-m. 1. the south 2. poet. the south wind [of uncertain derivation] KJV: south.
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south
Usage: south
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render darowm, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1864.
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1864, grouped by book.
Darom (Strong's H1864) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "south". darowm (daw-rome') n-m. 1. the south 2. poet. the south wind
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H1864 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1864 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as south. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.