רָאמָה
râʼmâh · H7215 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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coral
Hard stony substance secreted by certain colonial marine animals as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs; regarded as beautiful and valuable
ExamplesJob 28:18 “Coral and crystal are not to be mentioned; And the acquisition of wisdom is more valuable than pearls.
Ezekiel 27:16 “Aram was your customer because of the abundance of your goods; they paid for your merchandise with emeralds, purple, colorfully woven cloth, fine linen, coral, and rubies.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זָכַרto remember 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- גָּבִישׁ gâbîysh · H1378 · crystal
- Both words denote precious materials from the sea, pearl from mollusks and coral from marine organisms, commonly paired in ancient lists of valuable substances and used for ornamentation and valuation.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Gemstones001003001001009
- The word means coral, directly illustrated by the wisdom saying that "coral and crystal are not to be mentioned" beside the value of wisdom (Job 28:18) and coral listed among Tyre's traded luxury goods (Ezekiel 27:16).
- Names of People003001007
- This domain is shared with the identically spelled place name Ramoth (רָאמוֹת (Râʼmôwth, H7216)); it is not independently attested in this word's own sampled citations, which concern the gemstone.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This domain is shared with the identically spelled place name Ramoth (רָאמוֹת (Râʼmôwth, H7216)); it is not independently attested in this word's own sampled citations.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7215. ramoth I. רָאמוֺת noun [feminine plural] usually corals (so Ki; black corals Thes…
I. רָאמוֺת noun [feminine plural] usually corals (so Ki; black corals Thes (מְּנִינִים = red corals); compare Arabic , sea-shell, WeHeid. 2. 163); — as costly Job 28:18, as merchandise, רָאמֹת Eze 27:16; — חָכְמוֺת לֶאֱוִיל רָאמוֺת Pro 24:7, reading and sense dubious, see Toy.
רָֽאֲמָה, II. רָאמַת רָאמוֺת, see רום, II. רמה. above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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