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Places of the Bible

Arimathea

City

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Arimathea, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

  • Holy Week · 30 AD · 3 verses
  • Crucifixion and Burial · 30 AD · 3 verses

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 3 verses

Matthew
27:57
Mark
15:43
John
19:38

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.