Hiram
pronunciation
How to pronounce Hiram in British English:
UK ['haiərəm]
How to pronounce Hiram in American English:
US
Word Origin
- Hiram
- masc. proper name, from Phoenician/Hebrew Hiram, perhaps short for Ahiram, literally "brother of the lofty."
Example
- 1. Solomon continued to do this for hiram year after year .
- 2. Hiram stevens maxim produces the first fully automatic machine gun : the maxim gun .
- 3. And hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold .
- 4. The first commercially successful product was patented by mit grad hiram percy maxim in 1909 .
- 5. Now hiram king of tyre sent messengers to david , along with cedar logs , stonemasons and carpenters to build a palace for him .