רָמָה
Râmâh · raw-maw'
Ramah, the name of four places in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H7413 (רָמָה);
Ramah, the name of four places in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Ramah.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
The head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָמָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 25 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in ramah8 · 22%
- to ramah6 · 16%
- of ramah6 · 16%
- ramah4 · 11%
- and ramah2 · 5%
- him at ramah2 · 5%
- ramath1 · 3%
- between ramah1 · 3%
- or in ramah1 · 3%
- was to ramah1 · 3%
- unto ramah1 · 3%
- he also to ramah1 · 3%
- at ramah1 · 3%
- him in ramah1 · 3%
- from ramah1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.