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Strong's #7486: Ra`mcec (pronounced rah-mes-ace')

or Raamcec {rah-am-sace'}; of Egyptian origin; Rameses or Raamses, a place in Egypt:--Raamses, Rameses.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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ra‛mesês / ra‛amsês

Raamses or Rameses = "child of the sun"

1) a city in lower Egypt built by Hebrew slaves; probably in Goshen

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: of Egyptian origin



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Genesis 47:11: "in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded."
Exodus 1:11: "treasure cities, Pithom and Rameses."
Exodus 12:37: "And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred"
Numbers 33:3: "And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day"
Numbers 33:5: "And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth."









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