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