Strong H7486H7486Gרַֽעַמְסֵס
Rameses
One of the 2 senses of Strong H7486
- Transliteration
- ra‛mesês ra‛amsês
- Pronunciation
- {rah-mes-ace'} rah-am-sace'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Rameses was a city in Egypt where the Israelites lived during their enslavement before the Exodus (Gen. 47:11; Exo. 12:37).
Meaning of the name
Raamses or Rameses = "child of the sun"
General definition
Of Egypt origin;
Rameses or {Raamses} a place in Egypt: - {Raamses} Rameses.
Rameses or {Raamses} a place in Egypt: - {Raamses} Rameses.
In the biblical story
Rameses
Egyptian city where Israelites lived before the Exodus
Rameses was a city in Egypt where the Israelites lived during their enslavement before the Exodus (Gen. 47:11; Exo. 12:37).
In the Bible
Strong H7486G appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- rameses4
First verses
- Genesis 47:11And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
- Numbers 33:3And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
- Numbers 33:5And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.