Ramiah

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Ramiah: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a layman of the Parosh Clan who put away his heathen wife

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exaltation of the Lord

Hebrew

Strongs #07422: hymr Ramyah

Ramiah = "Jehovah has loosened"

1) a man who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

7422 Ramyah ram-yaw'

from 7311 and 3050; Jah has raised; Ramjah, an
Israelite:-Ramiah.
see HEBREW for 07311
see HEBREW for 03050

Ramiah [NAVE]

RAMIAH, an Israelite in the time of Ezra. Had taken a strange wife, Ezra 10:25.

RAMIAH [SMITH]

one who had taken "a strange wife." (Ezra 10:25)

RAMIAH [ISBE]

RAMIAH - ra-mi'-a (ramyah, "Yah has loosened" or "Yah is high"): One of the Israelites, of the sons of Parosh, mentioned in the register of those who had offended in the matter of foreign marriages (Ezr 10:25). The form of the name in 1 Esdras (9:26), "Hiermas," presupposes a Hebrew form yeremyah or possibly yirmeyah = "Jeremiah."