RAMAH (anc. geog.), a town of Benjamin, near Gibea, (Judges); called Rams of Saul (1 Sam. xxii.), six miles from Jerusalem to the north; memorable for the story of the Levite and his concubine: Taken and fortified by Baasha king of Israel, in order to annoy the kingdom of Judah. This Rama is mentioned Isa. x. Jer. xxxi. and Matth. ii. and is to be distinguished from Rams of Samuel, 1 Sam. xix. called also Ramatho, 1 Sam. i. 19. and Ramathaim Zophim, ibid. i. 1. which lay a great way to the west, towards Joppa, near Lydda, 1 Maccab. ii. the birth-place of Samuel; adjoining to the mountains of Ephraim, and the place of his residence, 1 Sam. xv. &c. (Josephus). Called Romula in the lower age, (Gul. Pyrius.) There is here a convent of the Fathers of the Holy Land, inhabited only by Portuguese, Spaniards, and Italians.