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Ram

ram (elevated; sublime, exalted, high, (dekhar) male, ('attudh) he-goat, ('ayil), deer)
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Easton's Bible Dictionary

exalted.

(1) The son of Hezron, and one of the ancestors of the royal line ( Ruth 4:19 ). The margin of 1 Chronicles 2:9 , also Matthew 1:3 , 4 and Luke 3:33 , have "Aram."

(2) One of the sons of Jerahmeel ( 1 Chronicles 2:25 , 2:27 ).

(3) A person mentioned in Job 32:2 as founder of a clan to which Elihu belonged. The same as Aram of Genesis 22:21 .


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Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names

elevated; sublime

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Smith's Bible Dictionary

[See BATTERING-RAM]

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ram (ram, "high," "exalted"):

(1) An ancestor of David (Ruth 4:19 (Arran); Matthew 1:3,4 (Aram); in 1 Chronicles 2:9 he is called the "brother," but in 2:25, the "son of Jerahmeel" (compare 1 Chronicles 2:27). Ram as the son of Hezron appears more likely than Ram the son of Jerahmeel, since, according to the narratives of 1 and 2 Samuel, David cannot have been a Jerahmeelite.

(2) Name of Elihu's family (Job 32:2). It is an open question as to whether Ram should be taken as a purely fictitious name, invented by the author of the Elihu speeches, or whether it is that of some obscure Arab tribe. In Genesis 22:21 Aram is a nephew of Buz (compare Elihu the Buzite), and the conjecture was at one time advanced that Ram was a contraction of Aram; but this theory is no longer held to be tenable. The suggestion that the initial "a" (the Hebrew letter, 'aleph) has been changed by a scribal error into "h" (the Hebrew letter, he) is more acceptable. Rashi, the rabbinical commentator, takes the quaint position that Ram is identical with Abraham.

(3) The ordinary word is 'ayil, which is remarkably near to 'ayyal, "deer" (compare Latin caper, capra, "goat," and capreolus, "wild goat" or "roe-buck"; also Greek dorkas, "roe-buck" or "gazelle").

(4) dekhar, literally, "male" (Ezra 6:9 , 17 ; 7:17).

(5) kar, "battering ram" (Ezekiel 4:2 ; 21:22); elsewhere "lamb" (Deuteronomy 32:14, etc.).

(6) 'attudh, properly "he-goat" ("ram," Genesis 31:10 , 12 the King James Version).

See SHEEP.



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