rama · deceive; throw

What it means

rama (רָמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deceive; throw”.

Deceive, betray; also throw, shoot.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To deceive or betray someone.
2. To throw something, or loose arrows.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• have you deceived me ×3
• deceived me ×2
• he has hurled ×2
• archer ×1
• did you deceive ×1
• it is to deceive me ×1
• raised ×1
• shooters ×1
• who deceives ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, look, she was Leah! And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why have you deceived me?”

• Exodus 15:1

  Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to YHWH, and they said: “I will sing to YHWH, for he is highly exalted; horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea.

• Exodus 15:21

  And Miriam answered them, “Sing to YHWH, for he is highly exalted; horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea.”

• Numbers 15:30

  But the person who acts with a raised hand, whether native-born or resident alien, he reviles YHWH, and that person shall be cut off from among their people.

• Joshua 9:22

  Joshua called them and spoke to them, saying, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?

• 1 Samuel 19:17

  Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let go my enemy, so that he has escaped?” And Michal said to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go; why should I put you to death?’”

• 1 Samuel 28:12

  When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman said to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”

• 2 Samuel 19:26

  He said, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said, ‘Let me saddle for myself the donkey, and I will ride on it and go with the king,’ for your servant is lame.

• 1 Chronicles 12:17

  David went out before them and answered and said to them, “If you have come to me in peace, to help me, I will have toward you a heart united; but if it is to deceive me in favor of my adversaries, though there is no violence in my palms, may the Elohim of our fathers see and judge.”

• Psalms 78:9

  The sons of Ephraim, armed shooters of the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

• Proverbs 26:19

  so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Was I not joking?”

• Jeremiah 4:29

  At the noise of horseman and archer every city flees; they go into the thickets and climb up among the rocks; every city is forsaken, and no man lives in them.

• Lamentations 1:19

  I called to my lovers; they deceived me; my priests and my elders in the city breathed their last while they sought food for themselves to bring back their life.