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(Heb. øָí , high), the name of three men in Scripture.
1. (Sept. Á᾿ñÜì , v. r. Á᾿ῤῥÜí and Ï᾿ñÜì ; Vul. Aran.) The son of Hezron and father of Amminadab, B.C. cir. 1780. He was born in Egypt after Jacob's migration there, as his name is not mentioned in Gen_46:4. He first appears in Rth_4:19. The genealogy in 1Ch_2:9-10 adds no further information concerning him, except that he was the second son of Hezron, Jerahmeel being the first-born (1Ch_2:25). He appears in the New Test. only in the two lists of the ancestry of Christ (Mat_1:3-4; Luk_3:33), where he is called ARAM.
2. (Sept. ῾ÑÜì , v. r. ῾ÑÜí , Á᾿ñÜì , ‘Apait; Vulg. Ram.) The first-born of Jerahmeel, and therefore nephew of the preceding (1Ch_2:25; 1Ch_2:27). B.C. post 1780. He had three sons — Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
3. (Sept. ῾ÑÜì , v. r. Á᾿ñÜì ; Vulg. Ram.) Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, is described as “of the kindred of Ram” (Job_32:2). Rashi's note on the passage is curious: ‘of the family of Ram,' Abraham; for it is said, ‘the greatest man among the Anakim' (Joshua 14); this [is] Abraham.” Ewald identifies Ram with Aram, mentioned in Gen_22:21 in connection with Huz and Buz (Gesch. i, 414). Elihu would thus be a collateral descendant of Abraham, and this may have suggested the extraordinary explanation given by Rashli. SEE ARAM.