Hi´ruhm; Heb., “my brother is exalted” or “brother of the exalted one”; alternatively Huram [Chronicles]
1 The king of Tyre and a contemporary of David and Solomon. The kingdom he established is vividly pictured by Ezekiel (chaps. 26–28). Solomon traded with him for materials and craftsmen, particularly in the building of the Temple in Jerusalem (1Kgs 5:12-18; 2Chr 2:3-12). Some years later Hiram gave Solomon gold and another larger shipment of cedar and other woods and received in exchange twenty towns in Galilee known collectively as Cabul (1Kgs 9:10-13). Hiram also aided Solomon in his commercial ventures by supplying both ships and sailors for a merchant fleet that operated out of the port of Ezion-geber (1Kgs 9:26-28). 2 An artisan sent by King Hiram of Tyre to do the bronze work for the Temple in Jerusalem (1Kgs 7:13-14). The son of a woman of the tribe of Naphtali (1Kgs 7:14) or of Dan (2Chr 2:14) and a man of Tyre, he was responsible for casting the bronze pillars, the molten sea, and other Temple furnishings in a specially suited clay that was found between Succoth and Zarethan (1Kgs 7:40-46).
