King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7216
Transliteration: Ramoth
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-moth')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "heights", the name of several cities in Isr
Meaning: Ramoth -- "heights", the name of several cities in Israel
Word Summary
Ramoth: "heights", the name of several cities in Isr
Original Word: רָאמוֹתTransliteration: Ramoth
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-moth')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "heights", the name of several cities in Isr
Meaning: Ramoth -- "heights", the name of several cities in Israel
Strong's Concordance
Ramoth Or Ramoth {raw-moth'}; plural of ra'mah; heights; Ramoth, the name of two places in Palestine -- Ramoth.
see HEBREW ra'mah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7216. Ramoth
רָ(א)מוֺת26 proper name
1. location Heights, Ramôth; —
a. in Gilead, בַּגִּלְעָד רָמֹת Joshua 21:38 (Gi; van d. H. Baer 21:36; P), בַּגּ ׳רָאמוֺת (of Gad) Deuteronomy 4:43; 1 Chronicles 6:65, בַּגּ ׳רָאמֹת Joshua 20:8 (P), Ραμωθ [20:8 Αρημωθ] ἐν (Τῇ) Γαλααδ; usually ג ׳רָמת (Ρεμμαθ [Ερεμαθ, Ραμωθ, Ραμα(θ)] Γαλ., etc.) 1 Kings 4:13 19t. Kings Chronicles (see גִּלְעָד 1d); = II. רָמָה
5, q. v.; site dubious; Onomasticon (Lag287. 91) 15 miles west of Philadelphia [Jerome Ib.145. 1Ki 145:31 says E!], hence DiGenesis 31:54 BuhlG. 261 f. conjectures el-Jal`aud, approximately 17 English miles northwest of Philadelphia, and 3 miles South of Yabbok; SmerrillEast of Jordan, 284 ff.; Hast. DB. RAMOTH G. conjectures (on General grounds) Jesrash, approximately 28 miles north of Philadelphia; GASmG. 586 some place just south of Yarmuk, compare GACooke in DrDt Add. xviii f., q. v. especially against es-Sal‰ Seetzen and others).
b. רָמוֺתנֶֿגֶב 1 Samuel 30:27, see רָאׅמַׅת 3
c. רָאמוֺת, Levitical City in Issachar 1 Chronicles 6:58 (Δαβωρ, ᵐ5L Ραμωθ), probably = רֶ֫מֶת Joshua 19:21 (P; Ρεμμας, A Ραμαθ), and יַרְמוּת
2, Joshua 21:29, q. v. p.438 (see also Di19:21).
2. masculine (וְ)רָמוֺת Ezra 10:29 Qr (Kt ירמות) see יְרֵימוֺת 5c, p.438.