Arimathea
Arimathea
City of Judea (Luke 23), home of the Joseph who buried Christ in his tomb (Matthew 27); location unknown, probably between Jerusalem and Joppa, possibly Ramleh, two miles south of Lod.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Arimathea
a “city of the Jews” (Luke 23:51), the birth-place of Joseph in whose sepulchre our Lord was laid (Matt. 27:57, 60; John 19:38). It is probably the same place as Ramathaim in Ephraim, and the birth-place of Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1, 19). Others identify it with Ramleh in Dan, or Rama (q.v.) in Benjamin (Matt. 2:18).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
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(Mat 27:57). The birthplace or abode of the rich man Joseph, who, by Pilate’s leave, which he “boldly” craved, casting away the “fear” which had previously kept him from open discipleship (Mar 15:43; Joh 19:38), buried our Lord’s body in his own “new tomb” at Jerusalem. Arimathea, a “city of the Jews” (Luke’s vague expression for the Gentiles, to whom no more precise information seemed needful: Luk 23:51) is possibly identical with Ramah, Samuel’s birthplace, called Armathaim in the Septuagint (1Sa 1:1; 1Sa 1:19); but many associate it with Ramleh, on the road from Jaffa to Jerusalem.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Arimathea
Fig. 48Tower in Arimathea
Arimathea, the birth-place of the wealthy Joseph, in whose sepulcher our Lord was laid (Mat 27:57; Joh 19:38). The Arimathea of Joseph is generally regarded as the same place as the Ramathaim of Samuel, which stood near Lydda or Diospolis. Hence it has by some been identified with the existing Ramleh.
Ramleh is in N. lat. 31 59, and E. long. 35 28, 8 miles S.E. from Joppa, and 24 miles N.W. by W. from Jerusalem. It lies in the fine undulating Plain of Sharon, upon the eastern side of a broad low swell rising from a fertile though sandy plain. Like Gaza and Jaffa, this town is surrounded by olive-groves and gardens of vegetables and delicious fruits. Occasional palm-trees are also seen, as well as the kharob [carob] and the sycamore. The streets are few; the houses are of stone, and many of them large and well built. There are five mosques, two or more of which are said to have once been Christian churches; and there is here one of the largest Latin convents in Palestine. The place, is supposed to contain about 3000 inhabitants, of whom two-thirds are Muslims, and the rest Christians, chiefly of the Greek Church, with a few Armenians. The inhabitants carry on some trade in cotton and soap. The great caravan-road between Egypt and Damascus, Smyrna, and Constantinople passes through Ramleh, as well as the most frequented road for European pilgrims and travelers between Joppa and Jerusalem.
The isolated tower, of which a figure is here given, is the most conspicuous object in or about the city. It is about 120 feet in height, of Saracenic architecture, square, and built with well-hewn stone. According to the Muslim account it belonged to a ruined mosque. It bears the date 718 A.H. (A.D. 1310), and an Arabian author reports the completion at Ramleh, in that year, of a minaret unique for its loftiness and grandeur, by the sultan of Egypt, Nazir Mohammed ibn Kelawan. Among the plantations which surround the town occur, at every step, dry wells, cisterns fallen in, and vast vaulted reservoirs, which show that the city must in former times have been upwards of a league and a half in extent.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Arimathea
Called also Ramah. A town five miles north of Jerusalem.
Mat 27:57; Mar 15:43; Luk 23:51; Joh 19:38
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Arimathea
Arimathea (r-i-ma-th’ah), the heights. A city of Palestine, whence came Joseph the counsellor, mentioned in Luk 23:51. Trelawney Saunders places it east of Bethlehem.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Arimathea
Arimathea. (heights). Mat 27:57; Luk 23:51; Joh 19:38. St. Luke calls it “a city of Judea.” It is identified by many with the modern Ramleh.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Arimathea
or RAMAH, now called Ramle, or Ramla, a pleasant town, beautifully situated on the borders of a fertile and extensive plain, abounding in gardens, vineyards, olive and date trees. It stands about thirty miles north-west of Jerusalem, on the high road to Jaffa. At this Rama, which was likewise called Ramathaim Zophim, as lying in the district of Zuph, or Zoph, Samuel was born, 1 Samuel 1. This was likewise the native place of Joseph, called Joseph of Arimathea, who begged and obtained the body of Jesus from Pilate,
Mat 26:57. There was another Ramah, about six miles north of Jerusalem, in a pass which separated the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, which Baasha, king of Israel, took and began to fortify; but he was obliged to relinquish it, in consequence of the alliance formed between Asa, king of Judah, and Benhadad, king of Syria, 1 Kings 15. This is the Ramah, supposed to be alluded to in the lamentation of Rachel for her children.