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Raphu in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ra'-fu (raphu', "one healed"): The father of Palti, the spy selected from the tribe of Benjamin (Nu 13:9)....

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Rabshakeh in Naves Topical Bible

-(A title of an Assyrian officer) -Sent by Sennacherib against Jerusalem; undertakes to cause disloyalty to Hezekiah and the surrender of Jerusalem by a speech in the Jews' native language 2Ki 18:17-36; 19:4,8; Isa 36; 37...

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Raguel in Easton's Bible Dictionary

friend of God, (Num. 10:29)=Reuel (q.v.), Ex. 2:18, the father-in-law of Moses, and probably identical with Jethro (q.v.)....

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Raham in Hitchcock's Bible Names

compassion; a friend...

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Rabshakeh in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(chief cupbearer), 2Ki 18:1..., 19:1 ...; Isa 36:1 ..., 37:1 ... one of the officers of the king of Assyria sent against Jerusalem in the reign of Hezekiah. [HEZEKIAH] (B.C. 713.) The English version takes Rabshakeh as the name of a person; but it is more probably the name of the office which he held at the court, that of chief cupbearer....

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Raguel in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("friend of God.") 1. Prince priest of Midian; father of Zipporah, Moses' wife, and of Jethro and Hobab. (See JETHRO; HOBAB.) (Exodus 2:21; Exodus 3:1; Numbers 10:29). The older tradition, and the insecurity from Egyptian power which Moses would have been exposed to in the W. of the Elanitic gulf, favor the view that Raguel lived on the coas...

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Rapha in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ra'-fa (rapha'): (1) In the Revised Version margin these names are substituted for "the giant" in 1 Ch 20:4,6,8 and in 2 Sam 21:16,18,20,22. The latter passage states that certain champions of the Philistines who were slain by David's warriors had been born to the raphah in Gath. The text is corrupt; Raphah is probably an eponym. Originally th...

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Rabshakeh in Easton's Bible Dictionary

chief of the princes, the name given to the chief cup-bearer or the vizier of the Assyrian court; one of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah. See the speech he delivered, in the Hebrew language, in the hearing of all the people, as he stood near the wall on the north side of the city (2 Kings 18:17-37). He and the other envoys returned to...

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Raguel in Hitchcock's Bible Names

shepherd...

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Rapha in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Son of Benjamin 1Ch 8:2 -2. Also called REPHAIAH A descendant of Jonathan 1Ch 8:37; 9:43 -3. An ancestor of certain Philistine warriors, (margins) 2Sa 21:16,20,22; 1Ch 20:4,6,8...

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