Hebrew verb · H7411
רָמָה
ramahraw-maw'
to shoot; to deceive
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râmâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7411is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7411
to hurl; specifically, to shoot; figuratively, to delude or betray (as if causing to fall)
The King James renders it: beguile, betray, (bow-) man, carry, deceive, throw.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ramah is rendered "to shoot; to deceive". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to shoot".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 29:25When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
Genesis 29:25רִמִּיתָֽנִי׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to shoot, and to deceive.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to shootStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 29:25When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban… |
| to deceiveStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- have you deceived me3
- he has thrown2
- and a shooter of1
- did you deceive1
- he betrayed me1
- he deceives1
- shooters of1
- they deceived me1
- to betray me1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- רָמָ֥ה2
- וְרֹ֣מֵה1
- לְרַמּוֹתַ֣נִי1
- רוֹמֵי־1
- רִמָּ֣ה1
- רִמּ֔וּנִי1
- רִמִּיתֶ֨ם1
- רִמִּיתִ֔נִי1
- רִמִּיתָ֖נִי1
- רִמִּיתָֽנִי׃1
- רִמָּ֑נִי1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVpp2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Vqrmsc
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Vpcc/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp2fs/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVpp2mp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3cp/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HVqrmpc
Genesis
one use
When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
- רִמִּיתָֽנִי׃rimitaniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: have you deceived me
Exodus
two uses
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
- רָמָ֥הramahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has thrown
And Miriam sang back to them: “Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.”
- רָמָ֥הramahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has thrown
Joshua
one use
Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?
- רִמִּיתֶ֨םrimitemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: did you deceive
1 Samuel
two uses
And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
- רִמִּיתִ֔נִיrimitiniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: have you deceived me
But when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”
- רִמִּיתָ֖נִיrimitaniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: have you deceived me
2 Samuel
one use
“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,
- רִמָּ֑נִיrimaniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he betrayed me
1 Chronicles
one use
And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”
- לְרַמּוֹתַ֣נִיleramotanipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to betray me
Psalms
one use
The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
- רוֹמֵי־romei-verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: shooters of
Proverbs
one use
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
- רִמָּ֣הrimahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he deceives
Jeremiah
one use
Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
- וְרֹ֣מֵהveromehconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a shooter of
Lamentations
one use
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- רִמּ֔וּנִיrimuniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they deceived me
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.