Ramath-Lehi
Ramath-lehi
(Heb. tRamath’ Lechi’, , craggy height [see below]; Sept. ; Vulg. Ramathlechi, quod intienp etatur elevatio maxilloe). The origin of this name, which occurs only in Jdg 15:17, forms one of the most romantic episodes in Scripture history. Samson, having been bound with two new cords, was given up to the Philistines at a place called Lehi, a name which signifies jawbone. When the enemy attacked him, he burst his bonds, seized the jawbone (lehi) of an ass that lay upon the ground, and with this odd weapon slew a thousand of them. Then he threw away the jawbone, and, as a memorial of the event, and by a characteristic play upon the old name, he called the place Ramath-lehithat is, the lifting (or wielding?) of the jawbone; and so it is interpreted in the Vulgate and in the Sept. SEE SAMSON.
But Gesenius has pointed out (Thesaur. p. 752 a) that to be consistent with this the vowel-points should be altered, and the words become ; and that as they at present stand they are exactly parallel to Ramath-mizpeh and Ramath-negeb, and mean the height of Lechi. If we met with a similar account in ordinary history, we should say that the name had already been Ramath-lehi, and that the writer of the narrative, with that fondness for paronomasia which distinguishes these ancient records, had indulged himself in connecting the name with a possible exclamation of his hero. But the fact of the positive statement in this case may make us hesitate in coming to such a conclusion in less authoritative records. For the topography of the place, SEE LEHI.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ramath-lehi (2)
For this Lieut. Conder suggests (Tent Work, 1:277) Aydn Kara, a name, he says, sometimes given to the springs Ayun Abu-Meharib, son the slope of a low hill, seven miles from Beit Athb, a little way (three miles and a half) north-west of Zoreah; and this he thinks represents the ancient En hak- Kore.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ramath-lehi
elevation of Lehi, or the jawbone height; i.e., the Ramah of Lehi (Judg. 15:15-17). The phrase “in the jaw,” ver. 19, Authorized Version, is in the margin, also in the Revised Version, “in Lehi.” Here Samson slew a thousand Philistines with a jawbone.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Ramath Lehi
So Samson named the scene of his slaying a thousand Philistines with a jawbone. Jdg 15:17, “the height of Lehi.” In Jdg 15:9 “Lehi” is used by anticipation, Samson calling it so subsequently, or else he played on the name which it had already, “Ramath Lehi,” as expressing what he now has done, namely, “lifted up the jawbone.” (But (See LEHI.)
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Ramath-Lehi
RAMATH-LEHI.See Ramah, No. 6.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Ramath-Lehi
ramath-leh ( , ramath leh, the hill or height of Lehi; , Anairesis siagonos): So the place is said to have been called where Samson threw away the jaw-bone of an ass, with which he had slain 1,000 Philistines (Jdg 15:17). The Septuagint seems to have supposed that the name referred to the heaving or throwing up of the jaw-bone. The Hebrew, however, corresponds to the form used in other placenames, such as Ramath-mizpeh, and must be read as Ramah of Lehi. The name Lehi may have been given because of some real or imagined likeness in the place to the shape of a jaw-bone (Jdg 15:9, Jdg 15:14, Jdg 15:19). It may have been in Wady es-Sarar, not far from Zorah and Timnath; but the available data do not permit of certain identification. See JAW-BONE; LEHI.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Ramath-Lehi
Ramath-Lehi. This name, which means height of the jawbone, belonged to a place on the borders of Philistia, and is referred by the sacred writer to the jaw-bone with which Samson slaughtered the Philistines (Jdg 15:17).
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Ramath-Lehi
H7437
Place where Samson slew a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.
Jdg 15:17