Entry № 8667 · Hebrew origin

Reumah Reumah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROO-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Coral (Nahor's concubine)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "coral (nahor's concubine)".

Reumah (רְאוּמָה) means "coral" or "lofty" in Hebrew. In Genesis 22:24, Reumah was the concubine of Nahor, Abraham's brother — mother of Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah, ancestors of Aramean tribes.

Among the most obscure women named in Genesis.

Coral. Abraham's brother Nahor's concubine.

The name in its native script.

רְאוּמָה
Transliteration
Rəʾûmāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈruː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Reumah stands.

Reumah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Reumahs before her.

Real people
Reumah
Nahor's concubine.
In fiction
Reumah
Genesis 22:24.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Reumah.

The number behind Reumah.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Reumah reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.