Definition of Ramman

1. Noun. God of storms and wind; corresponds to Babylonian Adad.

Geographical relationships: Assyria
Generic synonyms: Semitic Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramman

Rambourg's chromic acid-phosphotungstic acid stain
Rambourg's stains
Ramean
Rameans
Rameau
Rameses
Rameses II
Rameses the Great
Ramesh
Ramesses
Ramesses II
Ramesses the Great
Ramist
Ramists
Ramman (current term)
Ramon Lully
Ramon y Cajal
Ramona
Ramos gin fizz
Ramphastidae
Ramphomicron
Ramsar
Ramsay
Ramsay Hunt
Ramsay Hunt's syndrome
Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Ramsden's ocular
Ramsden circle
Ramsden disk

Literary usage of Ramman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"In Babylonia about Hammurabi's time Ramman was associated, ... Ramman ideograph already referred to is gener- in Baby- ally used; possibly the deity was ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1911)
"In Babylonia about Hammurabi's time Ramman was associated, ... Ramman ideograph already referred to is gener- in Baby- ally used; possibly the deity was ..."

3. Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations by Robert Francis Harper (1901)
"... may Ashur and Belit overthrow him in anger and wrath, blot out his name and his family from off the land! INSCRIPTION OF Ramman- ..."

4. The Creation-story of Genesis I.: A Sumerian Theogony and Cosmogony, by Hugo Radau (1902)
"One god, however, remained to whom no such sphere has been assigned as yet, and this is Nin-Gir-su or Ramman. (a) Heavenly ocean: AN, Ana; (6) Terrestrial ..."

5. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow (1898)
"shows remarkable partiality for Ramman, perhaps as a matter of policy to offset the supposed preference shown by Ramman towards the previous dynasty. ..."

6. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"A more correct pronunciation of the name of this god would be Ramman. ... ABB borrowed from Assyria, and certainly * * Ramman was the most prevalent name of ..."

7. The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament by Eberhard Schrader, Owen Charles Whitehouse (1888)
"Ramman-abal-i-di-na-av proper name 339, ... [We have other names compounded with Ramman as ... Mannu-ki-Ramman 'who is like ..."

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