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Definition: URIM |
URIMNoun1. A part or decoration of the breastplate of the high priest among the ancient Jews, by which Jehovah revealed his will on certain occasions. Its nature has been the subject of conflicting conjectures. |
"URIM" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "lights", "fires". |
Date "URIM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Urim lights (Vulg."doctrina;" LXX. "revelation"). See THUMMIM. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: URIM |
| English words defined with "URIM": Thummim. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "URIM" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (congratulation, felicitation, prayer, wish). |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "URIM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "URIM" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "URIM": Urim and Thummin. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
urim | 14 |
thummim urim | 10 |
the urim and thummin | 8 |
urim and thumim | 8 |
publication urim | 3 |
kibbutz urim | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Date | Source | Nehemiah Chapter 7, Verse 65 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dixitque Athersatha eis ut non manducarent de sanctis sanctorum donec staret sacerdos doctus et eruditus |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there should stand up a priest with Urim and Thummim. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Nehemiah Chapter 7, Verse 65 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang gobernador miingon kanila, nga dili sila magkaon sa labing balaan nga mga butang, hangtud nga may motindog nga usa ka sacerdote lakip ang Urim ug ang Thummim. |
| Croatian | i namjesnik im zabrani blagovati od svetinja sve dok se ne pojavi sveæenik za Urim i Tumin. |
| Danish | Statholderen forbød dem at spise af det højhellige, indtil der fremstod en Præst med Urim og Tummim. |
| Dutch | En Hattirsatha zeide tot hen, dat zij van de heiligste dingen niet zouden eten, totdat er een priester stond met urim en thummim. |
| Finnish | Maaherra kielsi heitä syömästä korkeasti-pyhää, ennenkuin nousisi pappi, joka voi käyttää uurimia ja tummimia. |
| French | et le gouverneur leur dit de ne pas manger des choses très saintes jusqu`à ce qu`un sacrificateur eût consulté l`urim et le thummim. |
| German | Und der Landpfleger sprach zu ihnen, sie sollten nicht essen vom Hocheiligen, bis daß ein Priester aufkäme mit dem Licht und Recht. |
| Haitian Creole | Gouvènè jwif la te di yo yo pa t' kapab manje nan manje yo mete apa pou Bondye a toutotan pa t' gen prèt ki konn sèvi ak Ourim yo ansanm ak Tourim yo pou wè sa Bondye di nan sa. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Gubernur daerah Yehuda melarang mereka makan makanan yang dipersembahkan kepada Allah, sampai ada seorang imam yang dapat minta petunjuk dengan memakai Urim dan Tumim. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kata Hatirsata kepada mereka itu, jangan mereka itu makan dari pada barang yang mahasuci itu dahulu dari pada berdiri seorang imam dengan Urim dan Tumim. |
| Maori | Na ka mea te kawana ki a ratou, kia kaua ratou e kai i nga mea tapu rawa, kia ara ake ra ano tetahi tohunga, kei a ia nga Urimi me nga Tumime. |
| Norwegian | og stattholderen sa til dem at de ikke skulde ete av det høihellige før det fremstod en prest med urim og tummim. |
| Portuguese | E o governador lhes disse que não comesse das coisas sagradas, até que se levantasse um sacerdote com Urim e Tumim. |
| Rumanian | wi dregqtorul le -a spus sq nu mqnknce din lucrurile prea sfinte pknq nu va kntreba un preot pe Urim wi Tumim. |
| Spanish | El gobernador les dijo que no comiesen de las cosas más sagradas hasta que hubiese sacerdote para usar el Urim y Tumim. |
| Swedish | Och ståthållaren tillsade dem att de icke skulle få äta av det högheliga, förrän en präst uppstode med urim och tummim. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "URIM": siddurim. (additional references) | |
Words containing "URIM": surimi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "URIM" (pronounced 'U"rim'): Purim. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-r-u" | |
-1 letter: mir, rim, rum. | |
-2 letters: mi, mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-r-u" | |
+1 letter: murid. | |
+2 letters: atrium, barium, cerium, corium, crinum, curium, dirdum, erbium, fumier, humeri, imbrue, immure, impure, iterum, murein, murids, murine, muring, primus, purism, radium, rimous, rumaki, rumina, squirm, surimi, truism, umpire, untrim, uremia, uremic. | |
+3 letters: atriums, bariums, bohrium, brimful, brutism, bruxism, bumpier, ceriums, cranium, crinums, crissum, crummie, cumarin, curiums, dirdums, drumlin, dumpier, duumvir, erbiums, eremuri, fermium, fumaric, furmity, gourami, gummier, humidor, humpier, imbrued, imbrues, imbrute, immured, immures, imputer, inhumer, iridium, jumpier, lumpier, marquis, millrun, minuter, misrule, misuser, mixture, mousier, muckier, muddier, muggier, mureins, muriate, murices, murines, murkier, murkily, murrain, murries, murrine, mushier, muskier, mussier, mustier, muzzier, natrium, numeric, plumier, premium, primula, protium, pumicer, purisms, radiums, requiem, rhenium, rheumic, rhodium, rumakis, ruminal, rummier, rummies, samurai, simular, sistrum, spumier, squirms, squirmy, surmise, terbium, thorium, timarau, tourism, triduum, trismus, tritium, triumph, trivium, truisms, tumbril, turmoil, umpired, umpires, uniform, unmiter, unmitre, unrimed, untrims, uraemia, uraemic, uranism, uranium, uredium, uremias, yttrium, yummier, zoarium. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 52 49 4D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .-. .. -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01010010 01001001 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U R I M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0052 0049 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55524347 |
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