rama · Ramah

What it means

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

The name of several towns; it means "height." The best known are the one in Benjamin (Joshua 18:25) and Samuel's city, in the hill country of Ephraim (1 Samuel 1:19).

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.

The place

• Ramah ?

  Today: possibly er-Ram, West Bank

  The name of several towns; the best known was in Benjamin, about 5 miles (8 km) north of Jerusalem, and its site is not certain.

  Samuel lived in Ramah (1 Sam 7:17). Jeremiah spoke of Rachel's weeping for her children heard there (Jer 31:15).

  1 Samuel 1:191 Samuel 7:17Jeremiah 31:151 Kings 15:17

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×4
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×15
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Hosea×1

• Joshua 18:25

  Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

• Joshua 19:8

  and all the villages that were around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negev. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families.

• Joshua 19:29

  and the border turned back to Ramah, and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned back to Hosah, and its ends were at the sea, by the region of Achzib;

• Joshua 19:36

  Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

• Judges 4:5

  She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.

• Judges 19:13

  And he said to his young man, “Come, and let us approach one of the places and spend the night in Gibeah or in Ramah.”

• 1 Samuel 1:19

  They rose early in the morning and bowed down before YHWH; then they returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and YHWH remembered her.

• 1 Samuel 2:11

  Then Elkanah went to Ramah, to his house. And the boy was ministering to YHWH before Eli the priest.

• 1 Samuel 7:17

  And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house, and there he judged Israel; and he built there an altar to YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 8:4

  Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah

• 1 Samuel 15:34

  Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house, to Gibeah of Saul.

• 1 Samuel 16:13

  Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the spirit of YHWH came mightily upon David from that day onward. Samuel rose and went to Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 19:18

  David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.

• 1 Samuel 19:19

  It was told to Saul, saying, “Look, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”

• 1 Samuel 19:22

  He too went to Ramah, and came as far as the great cistern that is in Secu; and he asked and said, “Where are Samuel and David?” And one said, “Look, at Naioth in Ramah.”

• 1 Samuel 19:23

  He went there, to Naioth in Ramah; and the spirit of Elohim was upon him too, and he kept on going and prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 20:1

  David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity, and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”

• 1 Samuel 25:1

  Samuel died, and all Israel gathered and lamented for him and buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

• 1 Samuel 28:3

  Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had removed those who call up the dead and the spiritists from the land.

• 1 Kings 15:17

  Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, so as not to let anyone go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

• 1 Kings 15:21

  And it happened when Baasha heard it that he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.

• 1 Kings 15:22

  Then King Asa summoned all Judah, none exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building; and King Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.

• 2 Kings 8:29

  King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was sick.

• 2 Chronicles 16:1

  In year thirty-six of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, so as not to let anyone go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 16:5

  And it happened when Baasha heard it that he stopped building Ramah and halted his work.

• 2 Chronicles 16:6

  And Asa the king took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building; and he built with them Geba and Mizpah.

• 2 Chronicles 22:6

  He returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Azariah son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was sick.

• Ezra 2:26

  the sons of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one;

• Nehemiah 7:30

  the men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one;

• Nehemiah 11:33

  Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

• Isaiah 10:29

  They have crossed the pass; “Geba is a lodging for us”; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

• Jeremiah 31:15

  Thus says YHWH: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, bitter weeping: Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

• Jeremiah 40:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH after Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him, and he was bound in fetters among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried into exile to Babylon.

• Hosea 5:8

  Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; sound the alarm at Beth-aven: “After you, Benjamin.”

And 2 more times.