A dictionary of the . the southern lim-it of the tribe. Jos. 19 : 20. Drake wouldidentify it with Arrabeh, but Conderlocates it at the present village Raba,on the watershed south of Gilboa. RABBONI. John 20 : 16. SeeRabbi. RAB-MAG (perhaps the master ofthe magi) signified an officer of greatpower and dignity at the Babyloniancourt. Jer. 39 : 3, 13. RABSARIS (chief eunuch), the title of a high Assyrian or Babylonianofficer. 2 Kgs. 18 : 17 : Jer. 39 : 3, 13. RABSHAKEH seems to be thename, not of a person, but of an officer—the chief butler or cupbearer—who wassent with Rab-saris, the chi
A dictionary of the . the southern lim-it of the tribe. Jos. 19 : 20. Drake wouldidentify it with Arrabeh, but Conderlocates it at the present village Raba,on the watershed south of Gilboa. RABBONI. John 20 : 16. SeeRabbi. RAB-MAG (perhaps the master ofthe magi) signified an officer of greatpower and dignity at the Babyloniancourt. Jer. 39 : 3, 13. RABSARIS (chief eunuch), the title of a high Assyrian or Babylonianofficer. 2 Kgs. 18 : 17 : Jer. 39 : 3, 13. RABSHAKEH seems to be thename, not of a person, but of an officer—the chief butler or cupbearer—who wassent with Rab-saris, the chief of theeunuchs, and Tartan, messengers of theking of Assyria, to Hezekiah, summon-ing him, in the most indecent and blas-phemous manner, to surrender his capi-tal. 2 Kgs. 18 : 17-37. RACA (worthless), a term of con-tempt. Matt. 5 : 22. RACE. Heb. 12 : 1. See Games. RACHAB, the Greek form of Ra-hab. Matt. 1 : 5. RACHAL (traffic), a place in Judahto which David sent some of his Sam. 30 : 29. Its site is Tomb of Rachel, near Bethlehem. (After a Photograph.) RACHEL. (a ewe), the daughter ofLaban, the wife of the patriarch Jacob,and the mother of Joseph and history is given in Gen. 29-35. Theincidents of her life—her beauty, thepassion with which she was loved, etc.—are of a charming impressiveness, but46 her character—her theft of Labanfidols,her shrewdness in concealing the fact—does not command our respect. Shedied after giving birth to Benjamin, andon her grave, near the road from Beth-lehem to Jerusalem, Jacob set up apillar. Gen. 35 : 19. At the time of721 KAC ftAt Samuel and Saul the pillar was stillstanding. 1 Sam. 10 : 2. At present asmall white mosque, erected by the Mo-hammedans, indicates the place. Jere-miah, 31 : 15-17, represents Rachel asweeping in her grave when her childrenpass by on their way to Babylon, andMatthew, 2 : 17, 18, applies this to themassacre of the innocents. RACHELS TOMB. Gen. 35 :19, 20. The traditional
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