Ramah (Judea)
The village of Thomas.
Inhabitants or natives
Thomas the apostle, his sister, his bWater-brother, his father and his Family, Nicodemus the Sanhedrist have a property there.
Description
A gently sloping secondary road leads them to the very low small hill on which Ramah (Judea) is located.
It is a Gospelized village devoted to Jesus, as Thomas specifies when it comes to finding a refuge near Jerusalem which has become hostile: "Ramah (Judea) too..." says Thomas, who is attached to his town. "My father and my bWater-brother have thought of You with Nicodemus."[1]
Notable facts
Jesus gives the parable of the number of the elect (the narrow gate) there.[2]
Its name
רָמוֹת (Ramot)[3]
Ramah (Judea) means "height" - Ramah (Judea) of Benjamin is located about ten km north of Jerusalem. Today Er-Ram (Ramot polin). It is a suburb of greater Jerusalem.
To be distinguished from Ramah (Judea) of Samuel the prophet (Ramah (Judea)taim) later becoming Arimathea or from Ramot, a city of Gilead.
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 363
EMV 488 EMV 489
EMV 563 EMV 566 EMV 582
EMV 628
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The palm tree where the judge the prophetess Deborah sits is located between this town and the nearby town of Bethel.[4]
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