Lexical Definition

‎רַעְמָה‎ Raʻmâh (rah-maw') Raamah ^N:N-M-P
the same as ‎רַעְמָה‎

Raamah.

• § Raamah = "horse's mane"
• Ramah, the name of a grandson of Ham, and of a place (perhaps founded by him)

n pr m
1) son of Cush and father of Sheba and Dedan
n pr loc
2) a home of traders

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. ‎רַעְמָה‎, ‎רַעְמָא‎ (Gi^{Intr. 124 ff.}) proper name, masculine 'son' of Cush, ‎הָ֯‎ Gen 10:7 (twice in verse) = ‎אָ֯‎ 1Chr 1:9 (twice in verse) (Baer, see his note; van d. H. Gi ‎הָ֯‎ v^b); Ρεγχμα, Ρεγμα; ‎הָ֯‎ as trading people Ezek 27:22, Ραμα, Ραγμα. Identified by many with city Ῥεγ(α)μα (Ptol^{vi. 7, 14}), Ῥηγμα (Steph. Byz.), in southeast Arabia, on Persian Gulf (so even DHM^{ZMG xxx (1876), 122} Glas^{Skizze ii.251, 325}), but this is in inscription (Glas^{ib. 252}); < Sabean ‎רעֿמה‎ near Me`în in southwest Arabia (Hom^{Südar. Chr. 131} Hal^{535, 11}, compare DHM^l.c.), perhaps = Ῥαμμανῖται of Strabo^{xvi. 4. 24,} see Di^{Gen 10:7}.

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