Midvash

רָמָתַיִם צוֹפִיםRâmâthayim Tsôwphîym

צוּפִי: Suphite, so read probably for צוֺפִים (1 Samuel 1:1)

Pronunciation: raw-maw-thah'-yim tso-feem' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7436

Meanings

רָמָה: proper name [of a location]: the Height, Rama

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 2 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 1:1 There was a man named Elkanah who lived in Ramah in the region of Zuph in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, of Ephraim.
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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).