noun · feminine
rama
GreekῬαμά (rama)
Strong’sG4471
Rama
stem ram-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Ῥαμά (Rec. -ᾶ), ἡ, indecl. (Heb. רָמָה),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4471 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhram-ah'
Rama (i.e. Ramah), a place in Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesRama.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | rama | rama |
| object accusative | rama | rama |
| direct address vocative | rama | rama |
| of, belonging to genitive | rama | rama |
| to, for dative | rama1×Ῥαμὰ | rama |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
rama“Ramah”to, fordative singular1×
Matthew 2:18“Ramah”Fōnas en Rama akouita, klauthmos kai odurmos pollos; Rachēl klaiarōtas teim tekneim autau, kai ouk thelate parakalira hoti ouk alō.“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”