רַעְמְסֵסRaʻmᵉçêç
proper name [of a location]: Ramses, city in Egypt (Exodus 1:11; Genesis 47:11; Exodus 12:37; Numbers 33:3; Numbers 33:5)
Pronunciation: rah-mes-ace' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7486
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 47:11 So Joseph assigned the best land of Egypt—the region of Rameses—to his father and his brothers, and he settled them there, just as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exodus 1:11 So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.
- Exodus 12:37 That night the people of Israel left Rameses and started for Succoth. There were about 600,000 men, plus all the women and children.
- Numbers 33:3 They set out from the city of Rameses in early spring—on the fifteenth day of the first month—on the morning after the first Passover celebration. The people of Israel left defiantly, in full view of all the Egyptians.
- Numbers 33:5 After leaving Rameses, the Israelites set up camp at Succoth.
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).