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To shoot

רָמָהStrong’s H7411

ramah (ra-mah)

Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ramah is the Hebrew word usually translated “have you deceived me”, “has thrown” and “did you deceive”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.

“And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?”
Genesis 29:25 KJV
Meaning
  1. To cast, shoot, hurl(Qal) · (Piel) to throw down
  2. To beguile, deceive, mislead, deal treacherously(Piel)
How it's translated
  • have you deceived me 3
  • he has thrown 2
  • did you deceive 1
  • he betrayed me 1
  • to betray me 1
  • shooters of 1
  • he deceives 1
  • and a shooter of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 2
  • 1 Samuel 2
  • Genesis 1
  • Joshua 1
  • 2 Samuel 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

10 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 12 verses, by book
Genesis 1
29:25
Exodus 2
15:115:21
Joshua 1
9:22
1 Samuel 2
19:1728:12
2 Samuel 1
19:26
1 Chronicles 1
12:17
Psalms 1
78:9
Proverbs 1
26:19
Jeremiah 1
4:29
Lamentations 1
1:19
Hebrew dictionary

רָמָה ramah · to shoot

1) to cast, shoot, hurl 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to throw 1a2) bow-shooters, bowmen (participle) 1b) (Piel) to throw down Aramaic equivalent: re.mah (רְמָא "to cast" H7412)

רָמָה ramah · to deceive

1) to beguile, deceive, mislead, deal treacherously 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to beguile, deceive, mislead, trick 1a2) to deal treacherously with, betray

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “shoot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SHOOT, verb transitive

prte. and participle passive shot. The old participle shotten, is obsolete. [Latin scateo, to shoot out water.]

  1. To let fly and drive with force; as, to shoot an arrow.
  2. To discharge and cause to be driven with violence; as, to shoot a ball.
  3. To let off; used of the instrument.
  4. To strike with any thing shot; as, to shoot with an arrow or a bullet.
All definitions and other forms of “shoot”
  1. To send out; to push forth; as, a plant shoots a branch.
  2. To push out; to emit; to dart; to thrust forth.
  3. To push forward; to drive; to propel; as, to shoot a bolt.
  4. To push out; to thrust forward.“They shoot out the lip” Psalms 22:7
  5. To pass through with swiftness; as, to shoot the Stygian flood.
  6. To fit to each other by planing; a workman's term.
  7. To kill by a ball, arrow or other thing shot; as, to shoot a duck.

SHOOT, verb intransitive

  1. To perform the act of discharging, sending with force, or driving any thing by means of an engine or instrument; as, ot shoot at a target or mark.“The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him” Genesis 49:23
  2. To germinate; to bud; to sprout; to send forth branches.
  3. To form by shooting, or by an arrangement of particles into spiculae.
  4. To be emitted, sent forth or driven along.
  5. To protuberate; to be pushed out; to jut; to project.
  6. To pass, as an arrow or pointed instrument; to penetrate.
  7. To grow rapidly; to become by rapid growth.
  8. To move with velocity; as a shooting star.
  9. To feel a quick darting pain.

SHOOT, noun

  1. The act of propelling or driving any thing with violence; the discharge of a fire-arm or bow; as a good shot.
  2. The act of striking or endeavoring to strike with a massive weapon.
  3. A young branch.
  4. A young swine. [In New England pronounced shote.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.