Word Summary
Rhama: Ramah, a city North of Jer
Original Word: ῬαμάTransliteration: Rhama
Phonetic Spelling: (hram-ah')
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Short Definition: Ramah, a city North of Jer
Meaning: Ramah -- a city North of Jerusalem
Strong's Concordance
Rama.
Of Hebrew origin (Ramah); Rama (i.e. Ramah), a place in Palestine -- Rama.
see HEBREW Ramah
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4471: ΡαμαΡαμα (
T WH Ραμα; cf.
B. D. American edition under the word
, 1 at the beginning), (רָמָה, i. e. a high place, height), ἡ (indeclinable Winers 61 (60)), Ramah, a town of the tribe of Benjamin, situated six Roman miles north of Jerusalem on the road leading to Bethel; now the village of er Ram: Matthew 2:18 (from Jeremiah 38:15 (). Cf. Winers RWB, under the word; Graf in the Theol. Studien und Kritiken for 1854, p. 851ff; Pressel in Herzog xii., p. 515f; Furrer in Schenkel BL. v., p. 37; (BB. DD.).