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Strong's #7414 - רָמָתַיִם
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- Ramah = "hill"
- a town in Benjamin on the border of Ephraim about 5 miles (8 km) from Jerusalem and near to Gibeah
- the home place of Samuel located in the hill country of Ephraim
- a fortified city in Naphtali
- landmark on the boundary of Asher, apparently between Tyre and Zidon
- a place of battle between Israel and Syria
- also ´Ramoth-gilead´
- a place rehabited by the Benjamites after the return from captivity
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1 in Benjamin, on border of Ephraim, Hosea 5:8; 1 Kings 15:17,21,22 2 Chronicles 16:1,5,6; 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; ᵐ5 usually Ραμα; modern er-Râm, 5 miles north of Jerusalem, Buhl Geogr. 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 19:18,22 a (all with ה locative, הָרָמָָ֫חָה), 1 Samuel 19:19; 1 Samuel 19:22 b; 1 Samuel 19:23; 1 Samuel 19:23; 1 Samuel 20:1; 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Samuel 28:3, = הָרָמָתַיִם 1 Samuel 1:1 (see צוּפִי); ᵐ5 Αρμαθαιμ, Ραμα; perhaps (if distinct from
1) = Besit-Rima, 13miles east-northeast of Lydda (GASm Geogr. 254 Buhl Geogr. 170); or Râm-allah, 3miles southwest of Bethel (Ew Hist. ii. 421 and others) [compare also Ἀριμαθαμα; Matthew 27:57 +].
3 in Asher Joshua 19:29 (P), Ραμα; perhaps Râmiye, approximately 12miles east of Ladder of Tyre Rob BR iii. 79 Buhl Geogr. 231.
4 in Naphtali, Joshua 19:36 (P), Αραηλ, A ᵐ5 L Ραμα; modern Râmeh, approximately 8 miles west-southwest of Safed Buhl Geogr. 222.
5(בּ)רָמָה 2 Kings 8:29 2 Chronicles 22:6 Ρεμμωθ, Ραμωθ; ᵐ5 L Ραμαθ Γαλ.), see רָמוֺת
1 — See Dr Hast. DB. RAMAH p. 847.
רָמָתַיִם proper name, of a location׳הָר 1 Samuel 1:1, see II.רָמָה 2 above