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rama


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Rama 
  n  :  avatar  of  Vishnu;  any  of  three  incarnations:  Ramachandra  or 
  Parashurama  or  Balarama  [syn:  {Rama}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Rama 
  (Matt.  2:18),  the  Greek  form  of  Ramah.  (1.)  A  city  first 
  mentioned  in  Josh.  18:25,  near  Gibeah  of  Benjamin.  It  was 
  fortified  by  Baasha,  king  of  Israel  (1  Kings  15:17-22;  2  Chr. 
  16:1-6).  Asa,  king  of  Judah,  employed  Benhadad  the  Syrian  king 
  to  drive  Baasha  from  this  city  (1  Kings  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  (Jer.  39:8-12;  40:1).  Rachel,  whose  tomb  lies 
  close  to  Bethlehem,  is  represented  as  weeping  in  Ramah  (Jer. 
  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  (Matt.  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"  (Josh.  19:29). 
 
  (3.)  One  of  the  "fenced  cities"  of  Naphtali  (Josh.  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  (1  Sam.  1:1,  19). 
 
  (5.)  The  same  as  Ramoth-gilead  (q.v.),  2  Kings  8:29;  2  Chr. 
  22:6. 
 




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