רָמָה
Ramah
BDB lists 7 entries for ‘Ramah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H7414 appears in the Book of Ezra — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra
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רמה — transliterated Râmâh — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Ramah.” Debuting at Joshua 18:25, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 34 verses across 11 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in 1 Samuel. See 34-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7414 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 34
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 34 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #990
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 990 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 34 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Samuel 13 verses 38%
- Joshua 4 verses 12%
- 2 Chronicles 4 verses 12%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 34 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 27 verses · 79%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 21%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 5 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Ramah 32×
- American Standard Version†: Ramah 31×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Ramah 35×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Ramah 31×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7414 across 37† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7414 across 37† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7414 across 36† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7414 across 34† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 7 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
רמה I height, high-place
רמה II loc. usually c. art. הָר׳ the Height, Rama, הָרָמָה (except Je 31
- 1. in Benj., on border of Ephr., Ho 5:8; 1 K 15:17, 21, 22 = 2 Ch 16:1, 5, 6; Ju 4:5; 19:3; Is 10:29; Je 31:15; 40:1; Jos 18:25 (P), Ezr 2:26 = Ne 7:30, prob. also Ne 11:33; 𝔊 usually Ραμα; mod. er-Râm, 5 miles N. of Jerus., BuhlGeogr. 172. e.g. Hosea 5:8
- 2. in hill-country of Ephr. (= 1?), home of Samuel 1 S 1:19; 2:11; 7:17; 8:4; 15:34; 16:13; 19:18, 22a (all c. ה loc., הָרָמָ֫תָה), v 19, 22b, 23(×2); 20:1; 25:1; 28:3, = הָרָמָתַיִם 1:1 (v. צוּפִי); 𝔊 Αρμαθαιμ, Ραμα; perhaps (if distinct from 1) = Beit-Rima, 13 miles ENE. of Lydda (GASmGeogr. 254 BuhlGeogr. 170); or Râm-allah, 3 m. SW. of Bethel (EwHist. ii. 421 al.) [cf. also Ἀριμαθαία Mt 27:57 +]. e.g. 1 Samuel 1:19
- 3. in Asher Jos 19:29 (P), Ραμα; perhaps Râmiye, c. 12 miles E. of Ladder of Tyre RobBR iii. 79 BuhlGeogr. 231. e.g. Joshua 19:29
- 4. in Naphtali, Jos 19:36 (P), Αραηλ, A 𝔊L Ραμα; mod. Râmeh, c. 8 miles WSW. of Safed BuhlGeogr. 222. e.g. Joshua 19:36
- 5. (בָּ)רָמָה 2 K 8:29 = 2 Ch 22:6 (Ρεμμωθ, Ραμωθ; 𝔊L Ραμαθ Γαλ.), v. רָמוֹת 1—Vid. Dr Hast. DB. RAMAH. e.g. 2 Kings 8:29
רמה III loc. הָר׳ 1 S 1
רמה IV cast, shoot (Assyrian ramû, throw, lay
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. ר׳, subj. י׳ Ex 15:1, 21 (song), c. acc. + בַּיָּם; Pt. רֹמֵה קֶשֶׁת Je 4:29 coll. (or read רֹמֵי) bow-shooters, bowmen, pl. cstr. נוֹשְׁקֵי רוֹמֵי־ק׳ ψ 78:9 (v. II. נשׁק); cf. רֹבֵה Gn 21:20 (v. II. רבה, קַשָּׁת). e.g. Exodus 15:1
רמה V
Piel
- beguile, deal treacherously with (NH in deriv.; 𝔗 רְמָא Pa.; BuhlLex cp. Arabic رَمَى vi. be sluggish, backward (of wound), become putrid, corrupt);—Pf. 3 ms. רִמָּה Pr 26:19, sf. רִמָּנִי 2 S 19:27; 2 ms. sf. רִמִּיתָנִי Gn 29:25 1 S 28:12; 2 fs. sf. רִמִּיתִנִי 19:17, etc.; Inf. cstr. sf. לְרַמּוֹתַנִי 1 Ch 12:18 (van d. H. v 17);—beguile, deceive, mislead, acc. pers., Gn 29:25 (E), Jos 9:22 (JE), 1 S 28:12; 2 S 19:27; Pr 26:19; deal treacherously with, betray, acc. pers., 1 S 19:17 La 1:19, + לְצָרַי 1 Ch 12:17. e.g. Proverbs 26:19
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.f. height, high-place;—abs. ר׳ as term. techn. (cf. בָּמָה), = shrine (for illicit worship): Ez 16:25; ‖ גַּב v 24, 31, 39; so perhaps 1 S 22:6, but read prob. בָּמָה, 𝔊 Βαμα (A Ραμμα), HPS.
II. n.pr.loc. usually c. art. הָר׳ the Height, Rama, הָרָמָה (except Je 31:15 Ne 11:33):
III. vb. cast, shoot (Assyrian ramû, throw, lay; Arabic رَمَى throw, shoot; Ethiopic ረመየ: strike, aim a blow at; Aramaic רְמָא, ܪܡܳܐ cast, throw);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רמה (râmâh) (H7413) — high place.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רָמָה I
- 1. high, v. רָם.
- 2. height.—Pl. רָמוֹת. Meg. 14ᵃ, v. צָפָה.
רָמָה II
- , v. רמי
רִמָּה
- רמם to move; cmp. רחש a. deriv.) worm, esp. the worm in man’s grave. Ber. 18ᵇ קשׁה ר׳ למת וכ׳ the worm is as painful to the dead body as a needle in sound flesh. Sot. 5ᵃ (play on בֹשרֹ) ב̇ושה סֹרוחה ר̇ basar (flesh) suggests ‘shame’, ‘putrefied’, ‘worm’. B. Mets. 83ᵇ אין ר׳ ותולעה וכ׳ no worm of any kind shall have power over you. Ab. IV, 4 תקות אנוש ר׳ the prospects of man are worms. Koh. R. to V, 10 הרי הוא לר׳ ותולעה he is (food) for worms; a. fr.—Pesik. Vayhi, p. 93ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) דהדין גופא אזל לר׳ that this (my) body must go to the worms; Koh. R. to XI, 2 לאדמה (corr. acc.); ib. ברם ר׳ לית וכ׳ but worms shall have no power over me except &c.
רמי
- (b. h.) [to move,] to throw, swing. Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 2 (ref. to Ex. XV, 1 a. 4) ר׳ שהיו עולין למרום וכ׳ ramah means that they were hurled upward, yarah, that they were thrown down the deep. e.g. Exodus 15:1
- to impose upon, deceive; to be cunning. Y. Hor. III, 48ᵃ bot. (he was no deceiver) אלא שהיה מְרַמֶּה במצות but he was cunning in charitable deeds (waited until others had subscribed, and then gave as much as all of them combined); Deut. R. s. 4; Tanḥ. R’eh 5. Gen. R. s. 85 אתה רִמִּיתָ באביך בגדי … שתמר מְרַמָּה בך וכ׳ thou (Judah) didst deceive thy father by means of a kid (Gen. XXXVII, 31); by thy life! Tamar shall deceive thee through a kid (ib. XXXVIII, 20); Yalk. ib. 145 לאביך … לך; a. e.—Part. pass. מְרוּמֶּה. Snh. 32ᵇ, a. e. דין מ׳, v. דִּין II e.g. Genesis 37:31
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 24 distinct written forms H7414 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בָּ/רָמָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 19:23 | 4 |
| בָּ/רָמָֽה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 19:19 | 3 |
| הָ/רָמָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:17 | 3 |
| הָֽ/רָמָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:22 | 3 |
| הָ/רָמָ֑תָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 1:19 | 2 |
| הָ/רָמָֽתָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 8:4 | 2 |
| הָֽ/רָמָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 10:29 | 2 |
| בָ/רָמָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 28:3 | 1 |
| בָ/רָמָֽה | Noun, Proper | Judges 19:13 | 1 |
| בָֽ/רָמָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 22:6 | 1 |
| בְּ/רָמָ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 31:15 | 1 |
| בָּֽ/רָמָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 8:29 | 1 |
| הָ/רָמָ֔תָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 19:18 | 1 |
| הָ/רָמָ֖תָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 2:11 | 1 |
| הָ/רָמָ֗תָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 19:22 | 1 |
| הָ/רָמָ֛ה | Noun, Proper | Judges 4:5 | 1 |
| הָ/רָמָ֨תָ/ה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 7:17 | 1 |
| הָ/רָמָה֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:26 | 1 |
| הָֽ/רָמָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 40:1 | 1 |
| הָֽ/רָמָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:21 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/רָמָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:36 | 1 |
| וְ/הָֽ/רָמָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Joshua 18:25 | 1 |
| רָ֣אמַת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:8 | 1 |
| רָמָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 11:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7414, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- רמות Râmôwth H7418 Ramoth
- רמת גלעד Râmôth Gilʻâd H7433 Ramoth
- רמת המצפה Râmath ham-Mit-speh H7434 Ramath-mizpeh
- רמתים צופים Râmâthayim Tsôwphîym H7436 Ramathaim-zophim
- רמת לחי Râmath Lechîy H7437 Ramath-lehi
- Αριμαθαια Arimathaía G707 Arimathea
- Ραμα Rhamâ G4471 Ramah
- רמתי Râmâthîy H7435 Ramathite
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 8 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ramah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(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)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
same as Ram
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 32 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 34 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Joshua 18:25
- Judges 4:5
- 1 Samuel 1:19
- 1 Kings 15:17
- 2 Kings 8:29
- 2 Chronicles 16:1
- Ezra 2:26
- Isaiah 10:29
- Jeremiah 31:15
- Hosea 5:8
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
