A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Rameumptom

by George Reynolds

RAMEUMPTOM. The name given by the Zoramite apostates to the elevated place in their synagogues, whence they offered up their vainglorious and hypocritical prayers. Alma states the word means a holy stand. It resembles, in its roots, Hebrew, and also Egyptian, in a remarkable manner. Ramoth, high (as Ramoth Gilead), elevated, a place where one can see and be seen; or, in a figurative sense, sublime or exalted. Mptom has probably its root in the Hebrew word translated threshold, as we are told that the Philistine's god, Dagon, had a threshold in Ashdod (see I Samuel, 5:4, 5). Words with this root are quite numerous in the Bible. Thus we see how Rameumptom means a high place to stand upon, a holy stand.