Judges 15:17 meaning and explanation

And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

Judges 15:17, Berean Standard Bible

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Samson has just killed a thousand Philistines with the fresh jawbone of a donkey, and now he throws the weapon away and names the place. The narrator explains that Ramath-lehi means "the hill of the jawbone," from the Hebrew ramah, a height or hill, and lehi, jawbone.

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