רָמָתַיִם צוֹפִים
Ramathaim-zophim
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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 H7436 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
1 Samuel 1 verse
About this entry
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רמתים צופים (Râmâthayim Tsôwphîym) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Ramathaim-zophim.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. 1 Samuel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in 1 Samuel 1:1. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7436 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Samuel 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
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).
- King James Version: Ramathaimzophim 1×
- American Standard Version: Ramathaim-zophim 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ramathaim-zophim 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ramathaim 1×, Zophim 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7436 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7436 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7436 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7436 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Ramathaim-zophim = "double height of the watchers"
- the home place of Samuel located in the hill country of Ephraim
Word origin
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.
צוּפָּא
- , Tosef. Sabb. V (VI), 2, v. צִיפָּה.—Pl. צוּפִּים (צוּפִים), v. צִיפָּה.
צוֹפִים
- (v. preced.) Ha-Tsofim (Outlook, Scopos), an eminence north of Jerusalem. Y. M. Kat. III, 83ᵇ bot. הרואה את ירושלם מן הצ׳ וכ׳ he who sees Jerusalem (after its destruction) from the Scopos, must rend his garments. Tosef. Pes. II (III), 13 אם עבר הצ׳ if (in going from Jerusalem and noticing that he has sacred flesh with him) he has passed the Scopos; Pes. III, 8 צופים; ib. 81ᵇ; Ber. 49ᵇ; a. e.—Sot. 48ᵇ, v. נוֹפֶת.
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 2 distinct written forms H7436 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הָ/רָמָתַ֛יִם | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 1:1 | 1 |
| צוֹפִ֖ים | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 1:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7436, 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.
- רמה Râmâh H7414 Ramah
- רמות Râmôwth H7418 Ramoth
- רמת גלעד Râmôth Gilʻâd H7433 Ramoth
- רמת המצפה Râmath ham-Mit-speh H7434 Ramath-mizpeh
- רמת לחי Râmath Lechîy H7437 Ramath-lehi
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 5 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 (Ramathaim-zophim). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The two heights of the Zophites or of the watchers (only in 1 Sam. 1:1), "in the land of Zuph" (9:5). Ramathaim is another name for Ramah (4).
One of the Levitical families descended from Kohath, that of Zuph or Zophai (1 Chr. 6:26, 35), had a district assigned to them in Ephraim, which from this circumstance was called "the land of Zuph," and hence the name of the town, "Zophim." It was the birth-place of Samuel and the seat of his authority (1 Sam. 2:11; 7:17). It is frequently mentioned in the history of that prophet and of David (15:34; 16:13; 19:18-23). Here Samuel died and was buried (25:1).
This town has been identified with the modern Neby Samwil ("the prophet Samuel"), about 4 or 5 miles north-west of Jerusalem. But there is no certainty as to its precise locality. Some have supposed that it may be identical with Arimathea of the New Testament. (See MIZPAH).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(the two heights of the watchers). [Ramah, 2]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the two watch-towers
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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