the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

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=====irim=====

The root word of irim should be 'ir', however, this does not appear to be a word. It is possible that a word with a close spelling might be the root. Possible candidates include [[air]] ("shining"), [[ira]] ("official"/"respect"), [[ireh]] ("moon"), or [[aor]] ("light").

All of these possible root relate to the concepts of a light shining, whether literally or figuratively, so it is not unreasonable to propose a tentative meaning for 'irim' of "The Shining Ones". If this is the case, irim might simply be a misspelling or simplification of the term [[aorim]].

'irim' occurs only nine times in the ancient texts

FIXME examine these: 
genesis41:44
job39:27
exodus17:11
leviticus4:8
leviticus4:19
1_samuel2:8
psalms75:7
psalms110:7
psalms113:7


Most traditional translations fail to recognize the word 'irim' and instead mistakenly convolute it with [[herim]], [[remim]], and [[merim]].

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