STRONGS NUMBER H7484


Word Summary
Ramah or Rama: "trembling", son of Cush, also a trading people
Original Word: רַעְמָה
Transliteration: Ramah or Rama
Phonetic Spelling: (rah-maw')
Part of Speech: proper name, masculine
Short Definition: "trembling", son of Cush, also a trading people
Meaning: Raamah -- "trembling", son of Cush, also a trading people
Strong's Concordance
Raamah

The same as ra'mah; Ramah, the name of a grandson of Ham, and of a place (perhaps founded by him) -- Raamah.

see HEBREW ra'mah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7484. Ramah

or Rama II. רַעְמָא רַעְמָה,‎ (GiIntr. 124 ff.)

proper name, masculine 'son' of Cush, הָ֯Genesis 10:7 (twice in verse) = אָ֯1 Chronicles 1:9 (twice in verse) (Baer, see his note; van d. H. Gi הָ֯‎ vb); Ρεγχμα, Ρεγμα; הָ֯‎ as trading people Ezekiel 27:22, Ραμα, Ραγμα. Identified by many with city Ῥεγ(α)μα (Ptolvi. 7, 14), Ῥηγμα (Steph. Byz.), in southeast Arabia, on Persian Gulf (so even DHMZMG xxx (1876), 122 GlasSkizze ii.251, 325), but this is in inscription (Glasib. 252); < Sabean רעֿמה‎ near Me`în in southwest Arabia (HomSüdar. Chr. 131 Hal535, 11, compare DHMl.c.), perhaps = Ῥαμμανῖται of Straboxvi. 4. 24, see DiGenesis 10:7.