Lexical Summary Rekab: perhaps "band of riders", a Benjamite, also the head of a nomadic family Original Word: רֵכָבTransliteration: Rekab Phonetic Spelling: (ray-kawb') Part of Speech: proper name, masculine; Adjective, of a people Short Definition: perhaps "band of riders", a Benjamite, also the head of a nomadic family Meaning: Rechab -- perhaps "band of riders", a Benjamite, also the head of a nomadic family Strong's Concordance Rechab From rakab; rider; Rekab, the name of two Arabs and of two Israelites -- Rechab. see HEBREW rakab Brown-Driver-Briggs H7394. Rekab רֵכָב proper name, masculine (band of riders? compare Arabic camels used in journeying); — 1 Πηχαβ: a. in בֶּןרֿ ׳יְהוֺנָדָב (Jehu's time, see ׳יְהו) 2 Kings 10:15, 13, whose descendants [or, the members of whose society, RSK 15, yet see NöZMG xi (1886). 171] were contemporary with Jeremiah, Jeremiah 35:6, 8, 14, 16, 19; 1 Chronicles 2:55 הַקִּינִים (see קֵינִי) are said to be descended from „mmath, בֵיתרֵֿכָב אֲבִי. — On the asceticism of different tribes compare Diodxix.94 (Nabataeans), PalmerDesert 432 (Kheibari Jews in Arabia); see also BertholStellung Israel Zu d, Freemden 80. b. (perhaps= a, so EmeyEntstehung 147) in בֶןרֿ ׳מַלְכִּיָּה Nehemiah 3:14. 2 in Benjamin, 2 Samuel 4:2 (πηχαβ), 4:3; 4:6; 4:9 (πεκχα; A ᵐ5L Πηχαβ in all). [רֵכָבִי] adjective, of a people of רֵכָב of 1, only plural הָרֵכָבִים as substantive, in הָר ׳בֵּית Jeremiah 35:2; 32:3; 35:18, בֵיתהָֿר ׳בְּנֵי 35:3, Απχαβεί, Παχαβεί, etc. |
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