RAMOTH identical in signification with Râm and Ramah, equivalent in Hebrew to an eminence, and hence a generic name for towns situated on remarkable heights, as so many in Palestine were. Besides those above named [RAMAH; RAMATHA] was a Ramah in the tribe of Asher, not far from Tyre; and another in Naphthali (Josh. 19.29, 36) in the north; and a Ramath in the tribe of Simeon, appropriately called Ramath of the South (ver. 8.), to which David sent a share of the spoils of Ziklag (1 Sam. 30.27), and yet a Ramoth in Issachar, assigned to the Levites of the family of Gershom. (1 Chron. 6.74.) More important than the foregoing was—