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# רַעַמְסֵס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7486

**Raamses** — used 5 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

Raamses [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7486/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַֽעַמְסֵס: n.pr.loc. Ramses [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7486/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Ex 1:11 (J), = רַעְמְסֵס Gn 47:11; Ex 12:37; Nu 33:3, 5 (all P), Ramses, city in Egypt; Ραμεσ(σ)η; built by King Rameses II (hence its name; the king used Israelitish corvée according to Ex 1:11), near Tel el-Maskhuta (Pithom), but not certainly identified, v. פִּתֹם and reff.; אֶרֶץ ר׳ Gn 47:11 of district round.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Rameses (4); of Rameses (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 33:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.5/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵרַעְמְסֵ֑ס וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּסֻכֹּֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out the.people of.Israel from Rameses and they.encamped at Succoth

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.

[Exodus 12:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.37/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מֵרַעְמְסֵ֖ס סֻכֹּ֑תָה כְּשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֨וֹת אֶ֧לֶף רַגְלִ֛י הַגְּבָרִ֖ים לְבַ֥ד מִטָּֽף׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out the.people of.Israel from Rameses to Succoth \[were\].about six hundred(s) thousand foot.soldier\[s\] the men apart from little.one\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7486.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7486/): 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).