JORAM

jo'-ram (yoram, "Yahweh is exalted"; compare JEHORAM; JORAM ):

(1) Son of Toi (or Tou, according to Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus, and 1 Chronicles 18:9-10), sent by his father to greet David (2 Samuel 8:10) = "Hadoram" (1 Chronicles 18:9-10) a form preferred by commentators in 2 Sam also.

(2) Same as Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Kings 8:21-24; 11:2; 1 Chronicles 3:11; Matthew 1:8 Ioram).

(3) Same as Jehoram, king of Northern Israel (2 Kings 8:29; compare 2 Kings 9:15 the Revised Version margin).

(4) (In form yoram): A Levite (1 Chronicles 26:25).

(5) (Ioram, 1 Esdras 1:9) = "Jozabad" (2 Chronicles 35:9); see JOZABAD (4).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.