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Ramathaim Zophim

라마다임소빔

Named at 1 Samuel 1:1: “Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, …” The Korean Revised Version writes the name as one word, 라마다임소빔.

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1SA 1:1–2, engwebp
¹Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
²He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
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Unresolved interpretation: Ramathaim Zophim of 1 Samuel 1:1 and Ramah of 1:19 and 2:11

1 Samuel 1:1 says, “Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, …” The Korean Revised Version writes the name as one word, 라마다임소빔.
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- 1SA 1:1–2, engwebp
  ¹Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
  ²He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
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1 Samuel 1:19 says, “They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife”; 2:11 says, “Elkanah went to Ramah to his house.”
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- 1SA 1:19–20, engwebp
  ¹⁹They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
  ²⁰When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.”
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- 1SA 2:11, engwebp
  ¹¹Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the LORD before Eli the priest.
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1 Samuel 1:1 calls Elkanah a man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim; 1:19 has them return and come to their house to Ramah, and 2:11 has Elkanah go to Ramah to his house. Both editions write the two names differently (라마다임소빔 and 라마, Ramathaim Zophim and Ramah). The text does not say whether the two names are one place or two. This collection records the differently written names apart and does not decide whether they are the same place.

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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Ramathaim-zophim” by name and 1 shared verse. The coordinate of its leading identification, another name for Ramah 4 (confidence 766 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.

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another name for Ramah 4
OpenBible.info confidence 766 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.85434, 35.23161
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Ramathaim-zophim” (CC BY 4.0)
another name for Arimathea
OpenBible.info confidence 112 of 1000 (current scholarship)
32.02806, 35.01944
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Ramathaim-zophim” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (1) — Elkanah of Ramathaim Zophim and his two wives, Hannah and Peninnah

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Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

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Entry: Ramathaim Zophim (place-ramathaim-zophim)
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Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 1:1: “Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, …” The Korean Revised Version writes the name as one word, 라마다임소빔.
Cited evidence: 1SA 1:1–2, engwebp
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