רָמֹת גִּלעָד
Râmôth Gilʻâd · H7433 · Hebrew · proper noun · 40 occurrences
This name belongs to 2 places
Person
Meanings
-
Ramoth
A town in Gilead in the territory of Gad, assigned to the clan of Merari of the tribe of Levi
Examples1 Kings 4:13 Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
1 Kings 22:3 Now the king of Israel said to his servants, “Are you aware that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, yet we are hesitant to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?”
1 Kings 22:4 So he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go to battle with me at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Consider me yours, my people yours, and my horses yours!”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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.
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.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Gemstones001003001001009
- This same written form is elsewhere used of a precious stone or coral, a distinct sense not attested by the sampled place-name citations here (1 Kings 4:13; 22:3, 4, 6, 12).
- Names of People003001007
- רָמֹת גִּלעָד (Râmôth Gilʻâd, H7433)'s own occurrences (20, with no distinguishing gloss text recovered in this project's source data) give no independently confirmable basis to distinguish its own sense from its bundle partners' senses; the "Names of People" classification is bundle-shared with רָאמָה (râʼmâh, H7215), רָאמוֹת (Râʼmôwth, H7216), and רָמוֹת (Râmôwth, H7418) in the source data and is not independently confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences standing alone.
- Names of Locations003001010
- 1 Kings 4:13 places this Transjordanian city in Gilead, and 22:3, 4, 6, and 12 repeatedly name "Ramoth-gilead" as the contested city Ahab and Jehoshaphat debate attacking, richly and directly attesting this as a place name.
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
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.