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A king of Tyre. (biblical character) quotations examples
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.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Kings 5:1
A male given name from Hebrew, taken into use by Puritans in the seventeenth century. quotations examples
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.
1994, Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills, Scribner's, page 8