Word

רַעְמְסֵס

Raʻmᵉçêç · H7486 · Hebrew · proper noun · 5 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Ramesesfirst named in Genesis 47:114 verses
Raamsesfirst named in Exodus 1:111 verse

Meanings

Rameses

A region and town in the north-eastern part of the Nile delta in Egypt, where Joseph settled his father and brothers and where the Israelite slaves were forced to build a city of the same name, the starting point of the exodus

Examples
Genesis 47:11 Now Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them property in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.
Exodus 1:11 So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 12:37 Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.

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

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עִירcity, town 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 5

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1

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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Locations003001010: Genesis 47:11 settles Jacob's family "in the land of Rameses," Exodus 1:11 names "Raamses" as a storage city built by forced labor, and Exodus 12:37 and Numbers 33:3, 5 describe Israel journeying "from Rameses," richly and directly attesting this as a place name.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7486. Raamses or Rameses ַרעַמְסֵס proper name, of a location Exo 1:11 (J), = רַלְמְסֵס…

H7486. Raamses
or Rameses ַרעַמְסֵס proper name, of a location Exo 1:11 (J), = רַלְמְסֵס Gen 47:11; Exo 12:37; Num 33:3, Num 33:5 (all P), Ramses, city in Egypt; Ραμες(ς)η; built by King Rameses II (hence its name; the king used Israelitish corveve according to Exo 1:11), near Tel el-Maskhuta (Pithom), but not certainly identified, see מִּהֹם and references; ר ׳אֶרֶץ Gen 47:11 of district round.
[רָעַן]
verb only
Pa`lel be or grow luxuriant, fresh, green; — Perfect3feminine singular רַעֲנָ֑נָה (DeHiob) Job 15:32 (of branch, in figure).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations5 occurrences

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