Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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urim and thummim , under urim.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under
urim .
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Examples
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You deny him the companionship of ladies and lock him in a room with another young guy and you're just asking them to slip each other the ol' urim and thummim.
Archive 2009-07-12 2009
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You deny him the companionship of ladies and lock him in a room with another young guy and you're just asking them to slip each other the ol' urim and thummim.
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Sometimes they went to the high priest, who immediately consulted God by the urim and thummim.
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Sometimes they addressed themselves to the seer and prophet; and you may believe that the seer and prophet discovered the most hidden things, as well as the urim and thummim of the high priest.
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Christ therefore very properly adds, in the days of Abiathar the high priest, therein speaking according to a very received opinion in the nation: as though he had said, "David ate the shewbread given him by the high priest, who had the oracle by Urim and thummim present with him, and who acted by the divine direction."
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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He is our captain, our leader, our high priest, urim and thummim, our oracle, our ark, on whom the cloud of direction rests and abides for ever.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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That is, the vestment of the high priest, with the urim and thummim, by which the Lord gave his oracle.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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That is, the vestment of the high priest, with the urim and thummim, by which the Lord gave his oracle.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Here we shall attempt to only describe one piece of the dress of the high priest, the breast-plate (rationale); a gorget, ten inches square, made of the same sort of cloth as the ephod, and doubled so as to form a kind of pouch or bag, in which was to be put the urim and thummim, which are also mentioned as is already known.
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That is, the vestment of the high priest, with the urim and thummim, by which the Lord gave his oracle.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision
avivamagnolia commented on the word thummim
תּוּמִי�? (Thummim) (pronounced "two-meen") is widely considered to be derived from the consonantal root תּמִ�? (t-m-m), meaning faultless, while �?וּרִי�? (Urim) has traditionally been taken to derive from a root meaning lights; these derivations are reflected in the Neqqudot of the masoretic text.
In consequence, Urim and Thummim has traditionally been translated as lights and perfections (by Theodotion, for example), or, by taking the phrase allegorically, as meaning revelation and truth, or doctrine and truth (it appears in this form in the Vulgate, in the writing of Jerome, and in the Hexapla)3.
January 19, 2009