Bible Names N-Z

Rephael in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(healed of God), son of Shemaiah, the first-born of Obed-edom. 1Ch 26:7 (B.C. about 1015.)...

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Reuben in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Jacob's firstborn, Leah's son, born long after the marriage. The name expresses the parents' joy at the accomplishment of long deferred hope: "Behold ye a son" (Genesis 29:32). He gathered mandrakes for his mother, in boyhood (Genesis 30:14). (See MANDRAKES.) In a sudden gust of temptation he was guilty of foul incest with Bilhah, his father's...

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Rei in Hitchcock's Bible Names

my shepherd; my companion; my friend...

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Remaliah in Naves Topical Bible

-Father of Pekah, king of Israel 2Ki 15:25,27,30; 16:1,5; 2Ch 28:6; Isa 7:1,4; 8:6...

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Rephael in Easton's Bible Dictionary

healed of God, one of Shemaiah's sons. He and his brethren, on account of their "strength for service," formed one of the divisions of the temple porters (1 Chr. 26:7, 8)....

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Rekem in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

re'-kem (rekem, "friendship"): (1) One of the five kings of Midian slain by the Israelites under Moses (Nu 31:8; Josh 13:21 (Codex Vaticanus Rhobok; Codex Alexandrinus Rhokom)). Like his companions, he is called a "king" in Numbers, but a "prince" or "chieftain" in the passage in Josh. The two references are hardly related; both are based on a...

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Remaliah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Father of the usurper Pekah (2 Kings 15:25-37). Isaiah (Isaiah 7:4-9) designates the usurper as "the son of Remaliah," to mark that, belonging to a family alien from David's, to whom alone God promised the kingdom, he cannot succeed against the heir of David....

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Rehob in Smiths Bible Dictionary

1. The father of Hadadezer king of Zobah, whom David smote at the Euphrates. 2Sa 8:3,12 (B.C. before 1043.) 2. A Levite or family of Levites who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. Ne 10:11 (B.C. 410.) 3. The northern limit of the exploration of the spies. Nu 13:21 Robinson fixes the position of Rehob as not far from Tell el-Kady and Banias. ...

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Rehoboam in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Solomon's son by the Ammonite Naamah (1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 14:13; 1 Kings 11:43; 2 Chronicles 12:13). Succeeded his father in his 41st year. In 2 Chronicles 13:7 "young and tender hearted" means inexperienced (for he was not young in years then) and faint-hearted, not energetic in making a stand against those who insolently rose against him....

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