Rameses
רַֽעַמְסֵס · ra.me.ses · H7486G4 mentions in 3 books, most in Numbers (2)
Where it is
30.80° N, 31.83° E
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Mentioned most in
Counted from 4 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
About this place
Rameses was a city and region in Egypt where Jacob's family settled when they first arrived in Egypt (Gen. 47:11). It was located in the land of Goshen. The Israelites later departed from Rameses at the beginning of the Exodus (Exo. 12:37; Num. 33:3,5). The name may come from the Egyptian phrase "Ra created it", referring to the sun god Ra. Some scholars believe Rameses was named after the pharaoh Rameses II of the 19th Dynasty, but the biblical chronology would place the Exodus much earlier. The exact location is uncertain, but it was likely in the eastern Nile Delta region.
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Every mention
4 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Genesis 1 mention
Exodus 1 mention
Numbers 2 mentions
Numbers 33:3They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of…Numbers 33:5The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.
What the dictionary says
“the land of” (Gen. 47:11), was probably “the land of Goshen” 45:10.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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- STEPBible TIPNR · Translators Individualised Proper Names with all References · CC BY 4.0 · github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data
- OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0 · www.openbible.info/geo/