Rameses
רַֽעַמְסֵסStrong’s H7486rameses (ra-me-ses)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rameses is the Hebrew word usually translated “from rameses” and “rameses”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.”
Meaning
- § Raamses or Rameses = "child of the sun"
- § Raamses or Rameses = "child of the sun"
How it's translated
- from rameses 3
- rameses 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Numbers 2
- Genesis 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 1:11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
- Numbers 33:3And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
- Numbers 33:5And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
Hebrew dictionary
רַֽעַמְסֵס rameses · Rameses
§ Raamses or Rameses = "child of the sun" a city in lower Egypt built by Hebrew slaves; probably in Goshen
רַֽעַמְסֵס rameses · Raamses
§ Raamses or Rameses = "child of the sun" a city in lower Egypt built by Hebrew slaves; probably in Goshen
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.