Arimathea: A "city of the Jews"
(Luke 23:51) the birth-place of Joseph in whose
sepulchre our Lord was laid
(Matthew 27:57,60; John 19:38) It is probably the
same place as Ramathaim in Ephraim, and the birth-place of Samuel
(1 Samuel 1:1,19) Others identify it with Ramleh in Dan, or Rama (q.v.) in
Benjamin
(Matthew 2:18)
