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Ramses

[ ram-seez ]

noun

  1. the name of several kings of ancient Egypt.
  2. Raamses ( def ). Exodus 12:37; Numbers 33:3–5.


Ramses

/ ˈræmsiːz /

noun

  1. any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt, who ruled from ?1315 to ?1090 bc


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They were arrested at Cairo's Ramses Square on August 16, caught up in the dragnet of a mass arrest carried out by the military.

Elsewhere, there were clashes across the river, east of downtown in Ramses Square.

In Ramses Square, where the pro-Morsi marches were supposed to end, blood soaked the streets.

Filmmaker Amir Ramses documents a vanishing community in a once-vibrant, multicultural society.

“People in Egypt have conspiracy theories about Jews,” Ramses told The Daily Beast in Cairo this week.

Egypt was left with Palestine on both sides of the Jordan, a possession, however, which it lost soon after Ramses' death.

Ramses determined to prevent such a catastrophe by destroying as many as possible of the male children of the Hebrews.

Did her grandmother learn the art from the same coiffeur that prepared the mother of Ramses for her morning care?

Behind the King comes a long train of other chariots, only less splendid than that of Ramses.

Ramses and Menna were left with only a few picked chariots of the household troops, and the whole Hittite army was coming on.

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