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Strong's #7411: ramah (pronounced raw-maw')

a primitive root; to hurl; specifically, to shoot; figuratively, to delude or betray (as if causing to fall):--beguile, betray, (bow-)man, carry, deceive, throw.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râmâh

1) to cast, shoot, hurl

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to throw

1a2) bow-shooters, bowmen (participle)

1b) (Piel) to throw down

2) to beguile, deceive, mislead, deal treacherously

2a) (Piel)

2a1) to beguile, deceive, mislead, trick

2a2) to deal treacherously with, betray

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 2168, 2169



Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

Genesis 29:25: "with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled"
Exodus 15:1: "he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea."
Exodus 15:21: "he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea."
Joshua 9:22: "unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far"
1 Samuel 19:17: "unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy,"
1 Samuel 28:12: "Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul."
2 Samuel 19:26: "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle"
1 Chronicles 12:17: "knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands,"
Psalms 78:9: "The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle."
Proverbs 26:19: "So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I"
Jeremiah 4:29: "shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets,"
Lamentations 1:19: "I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,"









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