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Lexicon :: Strong's H7414 - rāmâ

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רָמָה
Transliteration
rāmâ
Pronunciation
raw-maw'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as רָמָה (H7413)
Strong’s Definitions

רָמָה Râmâh, raw-maw'; the same as H7413; Ramah, the name of four places in Palestine:—Ramah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H7414 in the following manner: Ramah (37x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H7414 in the following manner: Ramah (37x).

  1. Ramah = "hill"

    1. a town in Benjamin on the border of Ephraim about 5 miles (8 km) from Jerusalem and near to Gibeah

    2. the home place of Samuel located in the hill country of Ephraim

    3. a fortified city in Naphtali

    4. landmark on the boundary of Asher, apparently between Tyre and Zidon

    5. a place of battle between Israel and Syria

      1. also 'Ramoth-gilead'

    6. a place rehabited by the Benjamites after the return from captivity

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רָמָה Râmâh, raw-maw'; the same as H7413; Ramah, the name of four places in Palestine:—Ramah.
STRONGS H7414: Abbreviations
II. רָמָה proper name, of a location usually with article הָר׳ the Height, Rama, הָרָמָה (except Jeremiah 31:15; Nehemiah 11:33):
1. in Benjamin, on border of Ephraim, Hosea 5:8; 1 Kings 15:17, 1 Kings 15:21, 1 Kings 15:22; 2 Chronicles 16:1, 2 Chronicles 16:5, 2 Chronicles 16:6; Judges 4:5; Judges 19:3; Isaiah 10:29; Jeremiah 31:15; Jeremiah 40:1; Joshua 18:25 (P), Ezra 2:26 = Nehemiah 7:30, probably also Nehemiah 11:33; Greek Version of the LXXusually Ραμα; modern er-Râm, 5 miles north of Jerusalem, BuhlGeogr. 172.
2. in hill-country of Ephraim (= 1?), home of Samuel 1 Samuel 1:19; 1 Samuel 2:11; 1 Samuel 7:17; 1 Samuel 8:4; 1 Samuel 15:34; 1 Samuel 16:13; 1 Samuel 19:18, 1 Samuel 19:22a (all with ה locative, הָרָמָ֫חָה), 1 Samuel 19:19; 1 Samuel 19:22b; 1 Samuel 19:23; 1 Samuel 20:1; 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Samuel 28:3, = הָרָמָתַיִם [H7436 1 Samuel 1:1] (see צוּפִי); Greek Version of the LXX Αρμαθαιμ, Ραμα; perhaps (if distinct from 1) = Besit-Rima, 13 miles east-northeast of Lydda (GASmGeogr. 254 BuhlGeogr. 170); or Râm-allah, 3 miles southwest of Bethel (EwHist. ii. 421 and others) [compare also Ἀριμαθαμα; Matthew 27:57 +].
3. in Asher Joshua 19:29 (P), Ραμα; perhaps Râmiye, approximately 12 miles east of Ladder of Tyre RobBR iii. 79 BuhlGeogr. 231.
4. in Naphtali, Joshua 19:36 (P), Αραηλ, A LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ραμα; modern Râmeh, approximately 8 miles west-southwest of Safed BuhlGeogr. 222.
5. (בּ)רָמָה 2 Kings 8:29 2 Chronicles 22:6 Ρεμμωθ, Ραμωθ; LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Ραμαθ Γαλ.), see רָמוֺת 1 — See DrHast. DB. RAMAH p. 847.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Joshua

18:25; 19:29; 19:36

Judges

4:5; 19:3

1 Samuel

1:19; 2:11; 7:17; 8:4; 15:34; 16:13; 19:18; 19:19; 19:22; 19:22; 19:23; 20:1; 25:1; 28:3

1 Kings

15:17; 15:21; 15:22

2 Kings

8:29

2 Chronicles

16:1; 16:5; 16:6; 22:6

Ezra

2:26

Nehemiah

7:30; 11:33; 11:33

Isaiah

10:29

Jeremiah

31:15; 31:15; 40:1

Hosea

5:8

Matthew

27:57

H7414

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Strong's Number H7414 matches the Hebrew רָמָה (rāmâ),
which occurs 36 times in 34 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:25 - Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - together with all the villages around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Simeon according to their clans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:29 - Then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab,[fn] Achzib,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:36 - Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:13 - And he said to his young man, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at Ramah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:19 - They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:11 - Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy[fn] was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 7:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:17 - Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:4 - Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:34 - Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:13 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:18 - Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:19 - And it was told Saul, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - Then he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” And one said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:23 - And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:1 - Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1 - Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:3 - Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:17 - Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:21 - And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:22 - Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:1 - In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:5 - And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and let his work cease.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:6 - Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - and he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:26 - The sons of Ramah and Geba, 621.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:30 - The men of Ramah and Geba, 621.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:33 - Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:29 - they have crossed over the pass;
at Geba they lodge for the night;
Ramah trembles;
Gibeah of Saul has fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:15 - Thus says the LORD:
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
because they are no more.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:8 - Blow the horn in Gibeah,
the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;
we follow you,[fn] O Benjamin!
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