noun
- a king of Tyre in the 10th century b.c. I Kings 5.
- a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “noble.”
noun
- 10th century bc, king of Tyre, who supplied Solomon with materials and craftsmen for the building of the Temple (II Samuel 5:11; I Kings 5:1–18)
masc. proper name, from Phoenician/Hebrew Hiram, perhaps short for Ahiram, literally “brother of the lofty.”