Topic
Rameses
5 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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- Genesis 47:11Easton · Nave The district in Egypt which was inhabited by the Israelites
¶ And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exodus 1:11Easton · Nave The district in Egypt which was inhabited by the Israelites
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 12:37Easton · Nave The district in Egypt which was inhabited by the Israelites
¶ And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
- Numbers 33:3Nave The district in Egypt which was inhabited by the Israelites
And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
- Numbers 33:5Nave The district in Egypt which was inhabited by the Israelites
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
“the land of” (Gen. 47:11), was probably “the land of Goshen” (q.v.) 45:10. After the Hebrews had built Rameses, one of the “treasure cities,” it came to be known as the “land” in which that city was built.
The city bearing this name (Ex. 12:37) was probably identical with Zoan, which Rameses II. (“son of the sun”) rebuilt. It became his special residence, and ranked next in importance and magnificance to Thebes. Huge masses of bricks, made of Nile mud, sun-dried, some of them mixed with stubble, possibly moulded by Jewish hands, still mark the site of Rameses. This was the general rendezvous of the Israelites before they began their march out of Egypt. Called also Raamses (Ex. 1:11).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
ram'-e-sez, ra-me'-sez.
See RAAMSES.
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Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.