Arimathea
AR`I-MA-THE`A (lion dead to the Lord), A city of Judea,
Luke 23:51 ; Matt, 27:57. Doubtless the Ramah of 1 Sam.
1:1....
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Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also
waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto
Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus....
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(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;)
[he was] of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself
waited for the kingdom of God....
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When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea,
named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:...
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ar-i-ma-the'-a (Arimathaia): "A city of the Jews," the home of
Joseph in whose sepulchre the body of Jesus was laid. Its
identity is the subject of much conjecture. The Onomasticon of
Eusebius and Jerome identifies it with Ramathaim-Zophim in the
hill-country of Ephraim (1 Sam 11), which is Ramah the
birthplace and burial-place of Samuel (1 Sa...
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(heights). Mt 27:57; Lu 23:51; Joh 19:38 St. Luke calls it "a
city of Judea." It is identified by many with the modern
Ramleh....
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Also called RAMAH. A town five miles north of Jerusalem
Mt 27:57; Mr 15:43; Lu 23:51; Joh 19:38...
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a "city of the Jews" (Luke 23:51), the birth-place of Joseph
in
whose sepulchre our Lord was laid (Matt. 27:57, 60;
John 19:38).
It is probably the same place as Ramathaim in Ephraim,
and the
birth-place of Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1, 19). Others
identify it with
Ramleh in Dan, or Rama (q.v.) in Benjamin (Matt.
2:18)....
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(Matthew 27:57). The birthplace or abode of the rich man
Joseph, who, by Pilate's leave, which he "boldly" craved,
casting away the "fear" which had previously kept him from
open discipleship (Mark 15:43; John 19:38), buried our Lord's
body in his own "new tomb" at Jerusalem. Arimathea, a "city of
the Jews" (Luke's vague expression for the Gen...
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