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title: רַעַמְסֵס — Raamses · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רַעַמְסֵס (7486), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Raamses. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Ramses. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רַעַמְסֵס

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«רַעַמְסֵס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Raamses** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 7486 · **BDB:** רַֽעַמְסֵס

### Glosses

Rameses (4); of.Rameses (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Raamses [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7486/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. Ramses [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7486/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Ex 1:11 (J), = רַעְמְסֵס Gn 47:11; Ex 12:37; Nu 33:3, 5 (all P), Ramses, city in Egypt; Ραμεσ(σ)η; built by King Rameses II (hence its name; the king used Israelitish corvée according to Ex 1:11), near Tel el-Maskhuta (Pithom), but not certainly identified, v. פִּתֹם and reff.; אֶרֶץ ר׳ Gn 47:11 of district round.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רַעַמְסֵס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7486/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 33:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.5/)

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וַיִּסְע֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵרַעְמְסֵ֑ס וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּסֻכֹּֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out the.people of.Israel from Rameses and they.encamped at Succoth

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.

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[Exodus 12:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.37/)

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וַיִּסְע֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מֵרַעְמְסֵ֖ס סֻכֹּ֑תָה כְּשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֨וֹת אֶ֧לֶף רַגְלִ֛י הַגְּבָרִ֖ים לְבַ֥ד מִטָּֽף׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out the.people of.Israel from Rameses to Succoth \[were\].about six hundred(s) thousand foot.soldier\[s\] the men apart from little.one\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

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