RAMATHITE.See Ramah, No. 3.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1Ch_27:27.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
rā?math-ı̄t (הרמתי, hā-rāmāthı̄; Codex Vaticanus ὁ ἐκ Ῥαήλ, ho ek Rhaḗl; Codex Alexandrinus ὁ Ῥαμαθῖος, ho Rhamathaı́os): So Shimei is called who was set by David over the vineyards (1Ch_27:27). There is nothing to show to which Ramah he belonged.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ramathite
(Heb. Ramathi', רָמָתַי, al inhubit(nt of Ramab; Sept. ὁ Ραμαθαῖος), all epithet of the Shimei (q.v.) who was over the vineyards of king David (1Ch_27:27). The name implies that he was native of a place called Ramah, but of the vaniouts Ramahs mentioned none is said to have been remarkable for vines; nor is there any tradition or other clue by which the particular Ramahi to which this worthy belonged call be identified. SEE RAMAH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.