A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Rameumptom
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.