רָמָה
râmâh · H7413 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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height, hill
An elevation of the earth’s surface rising gradually and to a relatively small height from the surrounding level; generally lower than a mountain
Examples1 Samuel 22:6 Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing in front of him.
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high place, place of worship
Place of worship in an elevated location
ExamplesEzekiel 16:24 that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every public square.
Ezekiel 16:25 “You built yourself a high place at the beginning of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene practice.
Ezekiel 16:31 “When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, in spurning a prostitute’s fee, you were not like a prostitute.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךְyour 3
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 2
- בָּנָהto build, to rebuild, to establish 1
- נָתַץto tear down 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
- בָּמָה bâmâh · H1116 · back, heights, hills
- Both רָמָה (râmâh, H7413) and the other word can refer to cultic high places, so they overlap in sense.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Landforms001002003
- 1 Samuel 22:6 describes Saul sitting under a tamarisk tree "on the height," directly attesting the sense of an elevated natural feature.
- Cultic Sites001003002002
- Ezekiel 16:24-25, 31, and 39 repeatedly describe Jerusalem building herself "a high place" for idolatrous prostitution imagery, directly attesting the sense of an illicit worship site.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This common noun shares its written form with the place name Ramah (רָמָה (Râmâh, H7414)), but the sampled citations here (1 Samuel 22:6; Ezekiel 16:24-39) use the word as an ordinary common noun for an elevated site or shrine rather than as that specific place name.
- Names of Landforms003001008
- Likewise, this domain reflects the shared written form's use as a landform's proper name in the sibling entry, not the ordinary common-noun sense the sampled citations here actually illustrate.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7413. ramah I. רָמָה noun feminine height, high-place; — absolute ׳ר as technical term…
I. רָמָה noun feminine height, high-place; — absolute ׳ר as technical term (compare בָּמָה), = shrine (for illicit worship): Eze 16:25; || גַּב Eze 16:21 Eze 16:31 Eze 16:39; so perhaps 1Sa 22:6, but read probably ᵐ5 בָּמָה, Βαμα (A Ραμμα), HPS.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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