רָמָהRâmâh
רָמָה: proper name [of a location]: the Height, Rama
Pronunciation: raw-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7414
Meanings
1. in Benjamin, on border of Ephraim (Hosea 5:8; 1 Kings 15:17; 1 Kings 15:21)
2. in hill-country of Ephraim (= 1?) (1 Samuel 1:19; 1 Samuel 2:11; 1 Samuel 7:17)
3. in Asher (Joshua 19:29)
4. in Naphtali (Joshua 19:36)
רָמָתַיִם: proper name [of a location]: see II. רָמָה 2 above (1 Samuel 1:1)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 36 times in the Bible.
- Joshua 18:25 Also Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
- Joshua 19:8 including all the surrounding villages as far south as Baalath-beer (also known as Ramah of the Negev). This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Simeon.
- Joshua 19:29 Then the boundary turned toward Ramah and the fortress of Tyre, where it turned toward Hosah and came to the Mediterranean Sea. The territory also included Mehebel, Aczib,
- Joshua 19:36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
- Judges 4:5 She would sit under the Palm of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites would go to her for judgment.
- Judges 19:13 Come on, let’s try to get as far as Gibeah or Ramah, and we’ll spend the night in one of those towns.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).