7413 - ramah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: רָמָה
Transliteration: ramah
Definition (short): place
Definition (full): height, high place

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from rum
Definition: height, high place
NASB Translation: height (1), high place (3), high places (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Feminine active participle of ruwm; a height (as a seat of idolatry) -- high place.

see HEBREW ruwm

KJV: When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)
NASB: Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.
KJV: That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
NASB: that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.
KJV: Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
NASB: "You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.
KJV: In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
NASB: "When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.
KJV: And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
NASB: "I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.