Strong's #224: 'Uwriym (pronounced oo-reem')

plur of 217; lights; Urim, the oracular brilliancy of the figures in the high-priest's breastplate:--Urim.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ûrı̂ym

Urim = "lights"

1) stones kept in a pouch on the high-priest' s breastplate, used in determining God' s decision in certain questions and issues

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: plural of H217

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Leviticus 8:8: "in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim."
Numbers 27:21: "the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before at his word"
Deuteronomy 33:8: "And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove"
1 Samuel 28:6: "neither by dreams, by Urim, nor by prophets."
Ezra 2:63: "of the most holy things, till there stood up with Urim and with Thummim."
Nehemiah 7:65: "of the most holy things, till there stood with Urim and Thummim."