Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H7486
רַעְמְסֵס
Ramesesrah-mes-ace'
Rameses
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Raʻmᵉçêç
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7486is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7486
Rameses or Raamses, a place in Egypt
The King James renders it: Raamses, Rameses.
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
Rameses is rendered "Rameses". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 47:11So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Genesis 47:11רַעְמְסֵ֑ס
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- from Rameses3
- Rameses2
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.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- מֵרַעְמְסֵ֖ס1
- מֵֽרַעְמְסֵס֙1
- מֵרַעְמְסֵ֑ס1
- רַעְמְסֵ֑ס1
- רַעַמְסֵֽס׃1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npl
- proper noun (a name)2HNpl
Genesis
one use
So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- רַעְמְסֵ֑סra'mesesproper noun (a name)tagged: Rameses
Exodus
two uses
So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
- רַעַמְסֵֽס׃raamsesproper noun (a name)tagged: Rameses
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
- מֵרַעְמְסֵ֖סmera'mesespreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Rameses
Numbers
two uses
On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
- מֵֽרַעְמְסֵס֙mera'mesespreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Rameses
The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
- מֵרַעְמְסֵ֑סmera'mesespreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Rameses
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.