Raamiah
("whom Jehovah makes to tremble".) (Neh 7:7). Reeliah in Ezr 2:2.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Raamiah
Raamiah ra-a-mi'-a (ra`amyah; Codex Vaticanus Naamia; Codex Alexandrinus, Rheelma): One of the leading men who returned with Zerubbabel from captivity (Ne 7:7). In the corresponding passage in Ezr 2:2, where the same list is named, a slight variation in form is given. "Reelaiah" is the name found in this passage. Doubtless, one is a corruption of the other. Both have the same root meaning.s generally been identified with Regina, mentioned by Ptolemy and Steph. Byzantr. as a city in Southeastern Arabia on the shores of the Persian Gulf. The Septuagint (Rhegma) itself supposes this site. But the Arabic name of the city here indicated is spelled with a "g" and so gives rise to a phonological difficulty. A more probable identification has been found in the Sabean ra`mah in Southwestern Arabia near Me`in in the north of Marib. Me`in was the capital of the old Minaean kingdom. ⇒See a list of verses on RAAMIAH in the Bible. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Raamiah
One of the twelve chiefs who returned with Zerubb.ibel, Neh V. In the parallil passage, Ezr 2^, the name is Reelaiah (n.Vy-i, B 'PeeXtid, A 'PeeUas), and in 1 Es 5' llESAlAS (which see). It is impossible to decide with certainty what was the original read- ing, although n'^iii probably represents it more nearly than n-ojn. RAAMSES, RAMESES (orcvT Ex 1" ; KDy! Gn 47", Ex li2'' ; l..\'.\ 'Pa/ifffff.) [D 0111. in Gn 47"]).— The city of Kaamses was, like Pithoiii, built by the Israelites for the Pharaoh of the Oppression (Ex I"), who has been shown by Dr. Naville's discovery of the site of Pithom to have been Ramses II. of the 19th dynasty (see Pithom). It was from Raanises or Rameses that the Israelites started when they lied from Eg\pt ; and as the next stage in their journey was Succoth (Ex 12"), Raarases could not have been far from Pithom. It must also have been in the land of Goshen, as is indeed expressly stated in Gn 47", where Goshen is called proleptically ' the land of Rameses.' According to LXX of Gn 46^ ' the land of Rameses' [D om.] included also Heroopolis or Pithom. Qosem…
Smith's Bible Dictionary on Raamiah
(thunder of Jehovah), one of the chiefs who returned with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:7) In (Ezra 2:2) he is called Reelaiah. (B.C. 445.)
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