Definitions for "Arimathea"
Keywords:  tomb, jerusalem, joseph, town, ramtha
English for Hebrew Ramatayim (Aramaic Ramtha; Greek Harimathaia; Latin Arimathia), a town five miles north of Jerusalem from where the rich man and Sanhedrin member Joseph is identified with (Mt 27:57 Mk 15:43 Lu 23:50 Yo 19:38), whose tomb in Jerusalem was used to place Messiah following the crucifixion, and from where the resurrection of Messiah occurred.
Arimathea, according to the Gospel of Luke (xxiii. 51), was "a city of Judea". It was the home town of Joseph of Arimathea, who appears in accounts of the Passion for having donated his new tomb outside of Jerusalem for the body of Jesus.