Yehoram (or in its shortened forms Yoram/Joram) is a theophoric name combining the divine name with the root rum ('be high, exalted'). Its 29 occurrences refer to at least four individuals, though two dominate the narrative: Jehoram king of Judah, son of Jehoshaphat, whose reign was marred by the revolt of Edom and the influence of his wife Athaliah (2 Kgs 8:16-24; 2 Chr 21), and Jehoram king of Israel, son of Ahab, who perished at the hands of Jehu during the purge of the Omride dynasty (2 Kgs 9:14-26). The overlapping reigns of these two contemporaneous kings bearing the same name create one of the thorniest chronological puzzles in Kings. A Levitical priest of the same name serves in Jehoshaphat's teaching commission (2 Chr 17:8), and Joram son of Tou appears as a diplomatic envoy from Hamath (2 Sam 8:10).