The story
- Biblical Hebrew · borrowed fromחִירָם“high-born”
- English todayHiram
From Biblical Hebrew חִירָם (Ḥirám, “high-born”), possibly from Phoenician, or a shortened form of אֲחִירָם ('aḥirám, “brother of the exalted”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.