Dict: easton - Rama

easton:

Rama @ kjv@Matthew:2:18), the Greek form of Ramah.

(1.) A city first mentioned in kjv@Joshua:18:25, near Gibeah of Benjamin. It was fortified by Baasha, king of Israel (kjvKings:15:17-22; kjv@2Chronicals:16:1-6). Asa, king of Judah, employed Benhadad the Syrian king to drive Baasha from this city (kjvKings:15:18-20). Isaiah (10:29) refers to it, and also Jeremiah, who was once a prisoner there among the other captives of Jerusalem when it was taken by Nebuchadnezzar kjv@Jeremiah:39:8-12 kjv@Jeremiah:40:1). Rachel, whose tomb lies close to Bethlehem, is represented as weeping in Ramah kjv@Jeremiah:31:15) for her slaughtered children. This prophecy is illustrated and fulfilled in the re-awakening of Rachel's grief at the slaughter of the infants in Bethlehem kjv@Matthew:2:18). It is identified with the modern village of er
- Ram, between Gibeon and Beeroth, about 5 miles due north of Jerusalem. (
See SAMUEL

(2.) A town identified with Rameh, on the border of Asher, about 13 miles south-east of Tyre, "on a solitary hill in the midst of a basin of green fields" kjv@Joshua:19:29).

(3.) One of the "fenced cities" of Naphtali kjv@Joshua:19:36), on a mountain slope, about seven and a half miles west-south-west of Safed, and 15 miles west of the north end of the Sea of Galilee, the present large and well-built village of Rameh.

(4.) The same as Ramathaim-zophim (q.v.), a town of Mount Ephraim ( kjv@1Samuel:1:1 kjv@1Samuel:1:19).

(5.) The same as Ramoth-gilead (q.v.), kjv@2Kings:8:29; kjv@2Chronicals:22:6.