STRONGS G4471:
Ραμα (
T WH Ραμα; cf.
B. D. American edition under the word , 1 at the beginning), (
רָמָה, i. e. a high place, height),
ἡ (indeclinable
Winers 61 (60)),
Ramah, a town of the tribe of Benjamin, situated six Roman miles north of Jerusalem on the road leading to Bethel; now the village of er Ram:
Matthew 2:18 (from
Jeremiah 38:15 (
Jer 31:15). Cf.
Winers RWB, under the word; Graf in the Theol. Studien und Kritiken for 1854, p. 851ff; Pressel in
Herzog xii., p. 515f; Furrer in
Schenkel BL. v., p. 37; (
BB. DD.).
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