Matthew 2:18
New Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not."
Word-by-Word Analysis
Ῥαμᾶ
Rhamâ
Rama (i.e. Ramah), a place in Palestine
שָׁמַע
shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
קִינָה
qîynâh
a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)
בְּכִי
Bᵉkîy
a weeping; by analogy, a dripping
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
בְּכִי
Bᵉkîy
a weeping; by analogy, a dripping
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
נָחַם
nâcham
properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavora...
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
Key Terms in This Verse
קִינָה qîynâh
a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments)
Study H7015 →נָחַם nâcham
properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself)
Study H5162 →שָׁמַע shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Study H8085 →Cross References
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, s...
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three a...
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
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