ra.mah is a proper place-name appearing in travel, border, conflict, and settlement settings in Scripture.

The term is consistently tagged as a proper noun and identifies a named location: people travel to or reside there, boundaries include it, and events such as building, alarm, mourning, and captivity are situated there.

1. Named location in narrative and geographic settings · dominant

   The proper-noun form marks a location in several concrete settings: in 1 Samuel 7:17 the APB renders Samuel's return to Ramah, where his house, judging, and altar are located; in 1 Kings 15:17 it renders Baasha's building activity there. Border lists include the name in Joshua 19:29, while Jeremiah 40:1 situates Jeremiah among captives sent from Ramah.

   1 Samuel 7:171 Kings 15:17Joshua 19:29Jeremiah 40:1Hosea 5:8Jeremiah 31:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB ordinarily presents the proper name as "Ramah," including travel to it, activity at it, and geographic lists containing it. These renderings confirm the verse-level location setting rather than supplying a separate lexical definition.