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RAMATH OF THE SOUTH
BAMATH OF THE SOUTH (211 nnq; for 6
see RAMAH. 4). and (in I S.) RAMCrH OF THE SOUTH
IIlD?: paMa [BLI-e [A1 NOTOY, PAMA npoc
MECHMBPI~N [Sym.]), apparently the most remote of
the Simeonite townr (Josh. 19 8) : mentioned also among
the towns in the Negeb to which David sent presents
from ZLKLAG (Hatusah). I S. 3027. The full name war
Baalath~beer-rama(o)th-negeb, i.c., ' Baalah of the well
of Ramath (Ramoth) of the Negeb,' or ' Badah of the
well, Ramath of the Xegeb' (see BAALATH-BEEN). The
name, however, needs correction by the help of u. bf
and Josh. 15,%. The lists of the Simeonite and Judahite
towns are disfigured by errata. nor do they agree ar
they should. The opinion of the present writer is that
the most remote of there towns war most probably
called Baalath-beer-ramah (also Baalath-en-rimmon),-
i.e., Badah of the well (also, fountain) of Ramah or
Rimmon,-and that both Ramah and RIMMON (q.~.) are
popular corruptions of ' Jerahmeel.' Consequently in
I S. 3021 the second of the name in the list rhould be
not Ramorh-neeeb, but . Terahmeel-neeeb. .
See En-
RIMMON, TAYAR, NEGEB.
I. J0,h. 1532 Lehaoth ( 1~~5) and in 196 Beth-lehaot?
C4n.3 are mirwlrten for n!22. lo r Ch.43 'Baalath-beer
become. shortened into 'Baal. T. K. C.
RAMATEAIM-ZOPHIM (D@Y nlnrnp ; apMaea~m
c(a)l+a [BLI; ap. cw@!~ [All. the name of
the city of Elkanah in the hill-country of Ephraim. I S.
11. The text, however, has Ha-ramathaim-sophim, the
article being prefixed to ramathaim. The difficulties of
this supposed compound form, and indeed of MT's
reading, however viewed, are well set forth by Driver
(TBSod Ioc), aho, with Wellhausen and W. R. Smith,
following 6's o(r)c$a, reads ,lu 'a Zuphite,' which is
explained by a reference to r Ch. 6zo[35], Kr. =='a
member of the clan called zur~'
[q.".]. Haiamathaim
is also plausibly explained by Wellhausen (TBS 34 f )
as the laterform of the name Ha-ramah (see RAMATHEM),
bhich was introduced into I S. 11 from a tendency to
modernisation, and stands (oppOa~p), in 6, not only
here, but also wherever har the n of motion
attached to it. With the form oomOa~u. ,. . we mav , riehtlv -,
compare the apapa8o or opira8o or papaso of Jorephus
and the aprfiaao~o of the NT.
he name ~prrmsh in the ~ehrew text almost always
occurs in the augmented farm amx. The exceptions are I S.
1918.20 r P5x 283. Here we conirantly find nQ,? except in
lSrszs, where mp?? acurs. @* accordingly represents fha
former word by iv pal", tho latter by clr .pp.emp-a new
distinciion ruggerted perhaps by the acu:rence of " in >"D,il.
~h~ C O T C C ~ ~ ~ ~
-hexc mD,a and .m> accm at different Bsr gives first
ha penetrated once ,"to Bar, for in luXz,
clr np+aE.zr+c and then iu p w (cp a. 18 inT).
The objections to the above plaurlhle explimnlion of
Ramalhrim-mphim %re--(x) that Hn-ramarhllm acun nowhere
e1,e in the MT, (I) that the Chmnlclsr isan insufficient auihoriry
for the cxirnnse of a cirn calied Zuph, (3) that 'land of Zuph'
occum in a (I S.PS) h- =li the ;ippramimce
corrnptnessgcc Zurw), and (+)that I S.1 I itself is obviously no
lanser in its original form1 The prohabilily is that ,ny v
(EV, 'r certain man7 rhould be I'5KDln,? WN, a firahmeek;?
and rhnn,,s~~nn 0'31s ~.nm'liljr~rhould be .iunn,.Inl %cn jn
nK ,ii~ ii~sm ID that the whole mtence become (omitting
the supernuour variant .ixnn,,
at the beginning and certain
~aria"t3 at ths snd), 'And there wa5 r Jerahmeelite oi the
family of the Ma!ritc% whhh hame whh EltmPh.' im~(Ms!ri),
however, like 'Trmar' and 'Ramarh,' is only a corruption of
.Ssqn,., ' Jerahmeelite,' and 'mount Ephraim' is in southern
not 1" central Paiilerrine (so ~udg. 17 1 19 I, src.). See Cril. Bjb.
The AX!nlATHaA of the NT is identified by Eus.
(0s 225, 12) with the city of Elkanah, and said to be
situated near Diospolis (Lydda). This situation is
beyond question suitable for the Ramathaim of I Macc.
ll g+, and perhaps too for the Arimathara of the NT.
See JcsePH, col. 2595fl ; RAMATHAIM (on meaning
of form): Nlcoo~~us, 5 3. T, x. C.
RAMESES
-THEM, RVRAMATHA~M(~~@&ME~N [ANV]).
the seat of one of the governments formerly belonging
to Samaria which weir transferred to Judara under
fonathan by king Demetriu, r Macc. l134. On the
name, see XAMES, 5 107, and RAMATHIIM-ZOPHIM.
EAMEsEs (DgaT: PAMECCH [BAFLI, PAMECH
IL1, Gen.47 ir ; or Rsarnses, Doon, Ex. 111, popcvq
. -~
[FLI,
123, Nu: S33, p+ero~v [BaAl wccvqr IBdbl; a h Judith
I9 m&bt=ss& AYI' see drd kedparh; RA.KES5ES). Far
k1.p. Ramie; I. ."d 11. see also EGYPT, 8 5j.K
In Ex. 1 xr Raamser is one of the cities built by the
Israelites ar Egyptian serfs : in 1237 they march from
Raamses (eastwards) to Succoth (cp alro Nu. 333 5).
In Gen. 4711 the family of Jacob receive from Joseph
'a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the
land, in the land of Rameses. as Pharaoh had com-
"landed.' The land of Rameres is, according to vu. 46
etc., a part of Goshen, or, more probably, is synonymous
with Goshen.
1" 4628 ha5 indeed for fbe Goshen of Heb. 'to Hervopolir
(