Lexical Summary Urim: part of the high priest's breastplate Original Word: אוּרִיםTransliteration: Urim Phonetic Spelling: (oo-reem') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: part of the high priest's breastplate Meaning: part of the high priest's breastplate Strong's Concordance Urim Plur of 'uwr; lights; Urim, the oracular brilliancy of the figures in the high-priest's breastplate -- Urim. see HEBREW 'uwr Brown-Driver-Briggs H224. Urim אֻרִים noun [masculine] plural region of light, East Isaiah 24:15 (so Ges MV Ew De Di RV; Lo Hi Kn Che read איים = coasts, so Cdd. ᵐ5; — ᵐ5 mostly omit ᵑ9 in doctrina, thinking of Urim, see BrMP 297). אוּרִים noun masculine Urim (plural intensive, mostly with article the Urim, and mostly joined with תֻּמִּים q. v.) הֲסִידֶךָ לְאִישׁ וְאוּרֶיךָ תֻּמֶּיךָ Deuteronomy 33:8 thy Thummim and thy Urim has the man of thy favour, i.e. the Levite tested at Massah & Meribah; וְהִתֻּמִּים הָאוּרִים were put into the הִמִּשְׁמָּט חשֶׁן of the high priest Exodus 28:30; Leviticus 8:8 (P); this חשֶׁן (q. v.) was a little bag or pouch worn on breast of high, priest, to hold the Urim & Thummim; the name ׳ח הַמִּשְׁמָּט was given because of decisions made by that which was within it; thus, Eleazar was to inquire of ׳י for Joshua הָאוּרִים בְּמִשְׁמַּט Numbers 27:21 (P); Saul prayed אוּרִים הָבָה opposed to תֻּמִּים הבה, 1 Samuel 14:41 ᵐ5, so We Dr (ᵑ0 omits former, and reads תָּמִים in latter); ׳י did not answer Saul בָּאוּרִים or by dreams or prophets 28:6; post-exilic Jews reserved difficult questions until there stood up a priest וּלְתֻמִּים לְאוּרִים Ezra 2:63; Nehemiah 7:65 (here alone without article) These passages give little information; ᵐ5 δήλωσις καὶ ἀλήθεια, ᵑ9 doctrina et veritas, Symm φωτισμοὶ καὶ τελεώτητες; JosAnt. iii. 8. 9 thinks of the twelve gems of face of bag as giving decision by shining; PhiloVit. Mos. iii thinks of two small images (׳א & ׳ת), probably embroidered in the cloth of the bag, like oracle-images of Egypt (Diod1, 48, 75 AelianVar. Hist.14, 34); EwGeschichte iii, 309; Antiq. 295, of two stones of different colours for sacred lot, on this see Dr 1 Samuel 14:41 where אוּרִים ᵐ5 & תֻּמִּים as object of give, δος = הָבָה; compare הִמִּילוּ 14:42, וַיִלָּכֵד 14:41 (used of taking by lot 10:20; Isaiah 7:14, 16); see also We & RSOTJC Lect x. N 4; BährSymbolik, of one thing within bag, a sacred pledge to high priest of the enlightenment & perfection he would receive from ׳י when called to make sacred decisions; KaEx 544 sees the sacred pledge in the twelve sacred gems themselves, that stimulate priest to self-sacrifice & perfect sanctification. |