•One of the kindred of Elihu. (Job 32:2) Ewald identified this Ram with Aram in (Genesis 22:21)
[See BATTERING-RAM]
Rama
(Matthew 2:15) referring to (Jeremiah 31:15) It is the Greek form of Ramah.
Ramah
(a hill). This is the name of several places in the holy land.
•One of the cities of the allotment of Benjamin. (Joshua 18:25) Its site is at er-Ram, about five
miles from Jerusalem, and near to Gibeah. (Judges 4:5; 19:13; 1 Samuel 22:6) Its people returned
after the captivity. (Ezra 2:26; Nehemiah 7:30)
•The home of Elkanah, Samuel’s father, (1 Samuel 1:19; 2:11) the birthplace of Samuel himself,
his home and official residence, the site of his altar ch. (1 Samuel 7:17; 8:4; 15:34; 16:13; 19:18)
and finally his burial-place, ch. (1 Samuel 25:1; 28:3) It is a contracted form of Ramathaim-zophim.
All that is directly said as to its situation is that it was in Mount Ephraim, (1 Samuel 1:1) a district
without defined boundaries, The position of Ramah is a much-disputed question. Tradition, however
places the residence of Samuel on the lofty and remarkable eminence of Neby Samwil which rises
four miles to the northwest of Jerusalem. Since the days of Arcult the tradition appears to have
been continuous. Here, then, we are inclined in the present state of the evidence, to place the
Ramah of Samuel.
•One of the nineteen fortified places of Naphtali. (Joshua 19:36) Dr. Robinson has discovered a
Rameh northwest of the Sea of Galilee, about 8 miles east-south-east of Safed.
•One of the landmarks on the boundary of Asher, (Joshua 19:29) apparently between Tyre and
Zidon. Some place it 3 miles east of Tyre, others 10 miles off and east-southeast of the same city.
•By this name in (2 Kings 8:29) and 2Chr 22:6 only, is designated Ramoth-gilead.
•A place mentioned in the catalogue of those reinhabited by the Benjamites after their return from
the captivity. (Nehemiah 11:33)
Ramath Of The South
one of the towns at the extreme south limit of Simeon. (Joshua 19:8) It is in all probability the
same place as south Ramoth. (1 Samuel 30:27)
Ramathaimzophim
(the two heights of the watchers). [Ramah, 2]
Ramathite, The
Shimei the Ramathite, i.e. a native of Ramah, had charge of the royal vineyards of King David.
(1 Chronicles 27:27) (B.C. 1050.)
Ramathlehi
(hill of the jawbone, or hill of Lehi), the name bestowed by Samson on the scene of his slaughter
of the thousand Philistines with the jaw bone, (Judges 15:17) a place by the rock Elam, in western
Judah of the Philistines.
Ramathmizpeh
(high place of the watch-tower). [RAMOTH-GILEAD]
Rameses, Or Raamses
(child of the sun), a city and district of lower Egypt. (Genesis 47:11; Exodus 12:37; Numbers
33:3,5) This land of Rameses either corresponds to the land of Goshen or was a district of it, more
probably the former. The city was one of the two store-cities built for the Pharaoh who first oppressed
the children of Israel. (Exodus 1:11) (It was probably the capital of Goshen and situated in the
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