Ramath Lehi

In Bible versions:

Ramath Lehi: NET NIV
Ramath-Lehi: AVS TEV
Ramath-lehi: NRSV NASB

the place where Samson defended himself with a donkey's jawbone

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elevation of the jaw-bone

Google Maps: Ramath-lehi (31° 45´, 34° 58´)

Hebrew

Strongs #07437: yxl tmr Ramath Lechiy

Ramath-lehi = "height of a jawbone"

1) a place by the rock Elam in northern Judah near the border of the
Philistines; named by Samson after his slaughter of the 1000
Philistines with the jawbone of an ass

7437 Ramath Lechiy raw'-math lekh'-ee

from 7413 and 3895; height of a jaw-bone; Ramath-Lechi, a
place in Palestine:-Ramath-lehi.
see HEBREW for 07413
see HEBREW for 03895

Ramath-lehi [EBD]

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.

Ramath-lehi [NAVE]

RAMATH-LEHI, place where Samson killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey, Judg. 15:17.

RAMATH-LEHI [ISBE]

RAMATH-LEHI - ra'-math-le'-hi (ramath lechi, "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 15:9,14,19). 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 JAWBONE; LEHI.

W. Ewing