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rāmat leḥī רָמַת לֶחִי ‘Ramath-lehi’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from rāmā רָמָה ‘high place’ and lᵊḥī לְחִי ‘jaw’
Roots: רמה לְחי

rāmat leḥī pr n loc
Ramath-lehi = "height of a jawbone"
1) a place by the rock Elam in northern Judah near the border of the Philistines; named by Samson after his slaughter of the 1000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass

Mentioned in Judges 15:17

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