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# רָמָה

Biblical Hebrew

**beguile** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

beguile [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5de_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָמָה⁴: vb. beguile, deal treacherously with [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5de_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. beguile, deal treacherously with (NH in deriv.; 𝔗 רְמָא Pa.; BuhlLex cp. Arabic رَمَى vi. be sluggish, backward (of wound), become putrid, corrupt);—Pf. 3 ms. רִמָּה Pr 26:19, sf. רִמָּנִי 2 S 19:27; 2 ms. sf. רִמִּיתָנִי Gn 29:25 1 S 28:12; 2 fs. sf. רִמִּיתִנִי 19:17, etc.; Inf. cstr. sf. לְרַמּוֹתַנִי 1 Ch 12:18 (van d. H. v 17);—beguile, deceive, mislead, acc. pers., Gn 29:25 (E), Jos 9:22 (JE), 1 S 28:12; 2 S 19:27; Pr 26:19; deal treacherously with, betray, acc. pers., 1 S 19:17 La 1:19, + לְצָרַי 1 Ch 12:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: have (3); \[who\] he deceives (1); betray (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 26:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.19/#tree)

כֵּֽן־אִ֭ישׁ רִמָּ֣ה אֶת־רֵעֵ֑הוּ וְ֝אָמַ֗ר הֲ‍ֽלֹא־מְשַׂחֵ֥ק אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].so a.person \[who\].he.deceives (et) neighbor his and he.says ? not jesting \[was\].I

*JPS 1917:* So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith: 'Am not I in sport?'

[1 Samuel 28:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.28.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.28.12/#tree)

וַתֵּ֤רֶא הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ אֶת־שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וַתִּזְעַ֖ק בְּק֣וֹל גָּד֑וֹל וַתֹּאמֶר֩ הָאִשָּׁ֨ה אֶל־שָׁא֧וּל לֵאמֹ֛ר לָ֥מָּה רִמִּיתָ֖נִי וְאַתָּ֥ה שָׁאֽוּל׃

*Word for word:* and she.saw the woman (et) Samuel and she.cried.out with a.voice great and she.said the woman to Saul (cmp) why? have you.deceived.me and you \[are\].Saul

*JPS 1917:* And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying: 'Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5de_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5de_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).