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Ramath-lehi
Elevation of Lehi, or the jawbone height; i.e., the Ramah of Lehi (Judg 15:15–17). The phrase “in the jaw,” ver. 19, Authorized Version, is in the margin, also in the Revised Version, “in Lehi.” Here Samson slew a thousand Philistines with a jawbone.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Judges 15:17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
