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rā´math-lē´hı̄ (לחי רמת, raÌ„math leḥı̄, “the hill†or “height of Lehiâ€; ἈναιÌÏεσις σιαγοÌνος, AnaireÌsis siagoÌnos): So the place is said to have been called where Samson threw away the jaw-bone of an ass, with which he had slain 1,000 Philistines (). The Septuagint seems to have supposed that the name referred to the “heaving†or throwing up of the jaw-bone. The Hebrew, however, corresponds to the form used in other placenames, such as Ramath-mizpeh, and must be read as “Ramah of Lehi.†The name Lehi may have been given because of some real or imagined likeness in the place to the shape of a jaw-bone (, , ). It may have been in WaÌ‚dy es-SaraÌ„r, not far from ZoÌ‚rah and Timnath; but the available data do not permit of certain identification. See JAW-BONE; LEHI.