rameumptom . . . “holy stand”:
cf. Hebrew rum “be high, exalted, rise,” and ram “high” (Ps
113:4; throne, Isa 6:1; -Ramah, 10:29); in the pl participial construct
form: rame- “high-ones-of” (Isa 10:33; from pl ramim “high,” Isa
2:13-14, Ps 78:69), and ‘omed, ‘omedim, “standing, officiating”
(priests: Neh 12:44; before God: Gen 18:22, 19:27, Dt 4:10, Jer 15:1; place: II
Chron 30:16, 34:31, 35:10, Dan 8:17-18, 10:11), in the form ‘omedam, “their-standing-place”
(Neh 8:7, 9:3, 13:11); cf ‘emdato “his-standing-place” (Mic 1:11); so
also vs 13 a place of standing which was high above the head; this is
the type of pulpit/platform often found high in the center of Jewish synagogue
and Temple (usually a bima/almemar of wood: TB Sukka 5Ib [5:2],
Sota 7:8 [41a]; Mosiah 2:7, I Esdras 9:42); cf also Hebrew romemu “exalt
ye!” (Ps 99:5, 9), used as part of the morning service prayer in Jewish
synagogue. Ancient Egyptian rm’, “height, high place,” with upraised-arms
determinative glyph . . . (Book of Mormon Critical Text: A Tool for
Scholarly Reference, ed. Robert F. Smith, 4 vols. [Provo, Utah: Deep Forest
Green Books, 2025], 2:653-54 n. 1874)
