RAMOTH rā’ mŏth (רָאמֹ֤ת, רָמֹ֥ת, for forms in LXX see below; meaning heights). 1. According to Qere an Israelite, of the sons of Bani, who divorced his Gentile wife after the captivity (Ezra 10:29; LXX Ρημωθ). But Kethib reads Jeremoth.

2. A city of the tribe of Gad in Gilead (Deut 4:43, LXX Ραμωθ; Josh 20:8; 21:38; 1 Chron 6:80 [Heb. 1 Chron 6:65]). See Ramothgilead.

3. A city in the Negev to which David sent gifts after his devastating attack upon the camp of the Amalekites (1 Sam 30:27, LXX Ραμα).

4. A Levitical city for Gershom in the territory of Issachar (1 Chron 6:73; LXX ̔Ραμὼ̀θ). It is doubtless the same as Jarmuth (Josh 21:29) because it occupies the same position in the list of Levitical cities and there are many other discrepancies between the two rosters (cf. Y. Aharoni, The Land of the Bible [1967], 105). Moreover, it is prob. the same as Remeth (Josh 19:21). A stele of Seti I (1309-1290) states the ’apiru from Mount Yarmuta had attacked the Asiatics (ANET, 255). Mount Yarmuta is doubtless to be associated with Jarmuth-Remeth-Ramoth of Issachar; i.e. in the elevated region NW of Beth-shean. Thus the form Yarmuth is more original than Ramoth. W. F. Albright suggested as the site Kokab el-Hawa, the Crusading Belvoir, located seven m. N of Beth-sheanon a plateau 999 ft. above sea level in a region of springs (“The Topography of the Tribe of Issachar,” ZAW, XLIV [1926], 231).