King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7394
Transliteration: 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
Word 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.