Hiram

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew חִירָם‎ (khirám, “high-born”), possibly from a Phoenician, or a shortened form of אֲחִירָם‎ ('akhirám, “brother of the exalted”).

Proper noun

Hiram

1. A king of Tyre. (biblical character)
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), 1 Kings 5:1:
     :

     And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.

2. A male given name, taken into use by Puritans in the seventeenth century.
   • 1994 Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills, Scribner's, →ISBN, page 8:

     Harm. It wasn't even a nickname. It was just the way folks had always pronounced his first name Hiram, in mountain dialect, a long "i" sound blending the two syllables into an aspirated breath.

Anagrams

• Ahmir, Rahim, harim, ihram