Arimathea

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Arimathea
     a "city of the Jews" (Luke 23:51), the birth-place of Joseph in
     whose sepulchre our Lord was laid (Matt. 27:57, 60; John 19:38).
     It is probably the same place as Ramathaim in Ephraim, and the
     birth-place of Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1, 19). Others identify it with
     Ramleh in Dan, or Rama (q.v.) in Benjamin (Matt. 2:18).


     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Arimathea, a lion dead to the Lord