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RAAMAH
RABBAH
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RAAIUAE (3PV7; psrMa [B4Dsi'EL1 parXMa
Dnn.21,t Ev 'ra tain ofthe guard,'~vmp. 'chief marshal'
(ippX.rti~,~ris7~~~~~),~~~~~xxcccccccc, ,. contrast with
[A]), OLE of the sons of CVSH [q.v.] Gen. lo7 (but
KpE ; I Ch. 19 RV Baama). Raamah is also grouped I this D'n3Bil .... la, : Gen. 373s 38 1 11 11 ; (b) V3 31, Erth. 1 st,
officer of the houwhold(oi=ovdpor [RXALBI): and (c) 1 'p?
with She& in EzekiePs list of trade centres (272,
>?,
Dan. 1 (sec RAB-r~nlr), but D.a(?pO ,@, Dan. 1y.r 1st (ip.
n?p ; papa [B], paypa [AQ]). A Sabzean inscription
x~m-06x~c [37 BAQFI). 1W muat probably be looked upon here
(Glaser. II 55) refers to 'the hosts of Saba and Havil3.n ' asaninrcmionalarshairm. The writerhasmodellsd the hhhhatiii
as attacking certain people 'on the caravan-route orux"ie1 10 rome extent upon that of Joseph (Bevan, Dan. 3.),
between Ma'6.n (=Miin, ? Bab. Magan) and Raemat' and remembers rhe n'?ix;! ?!, ~'pp;~ ,I, md il3?:? ,@,
(Homrnel, AHTz4o ; cp ZDbIG301rr). Here we have which recur in Gen. 38.41. S. A. C.
at any rate one Raamah. Glace?, however, places
Rhzmah near RZr el-Khaima, an the Persian Gulf
/ BARBAH. RABnATH of the Ammonites 1391 , -., n91 ..
(Shiaee, 2252). Against identification with Regma, on limu '!?, pa^^., JOS~. 1s zi [A], 1 B I ch. 20, [B bir,
the Arabian side of the same gulf, see Dillman". Cp
oncepaBBau~accusative1; pc.8BaO. r S. 1111?2?ng
1.
Geocnxmu, 5 Name. Jxr. 49% [A], I Ch. 201 ibis A1; pBBae "i;~
23, and Crit. Bib. on Gen. 107 Eeek.
~ ~ P Y Y r , S. 12 ze [BI, 171x7 [A], Ezek. 21 20;
27%- where ' Raamah' is brought nearer to Palestine. pcBBd Jer. 49 3 [xl; p@Boe Jer. 49s IQ"~td.1; pc.8aB.B Jer. 49 z
See CUSH, I ; SAHTA.
[X"]; pmB.0 uiGu Apwu, z S.12za [A], 17.7 [BI. In Dt.31~
@ trx"dates ;v
BAAXIAE
+ EKW rGv u&w Aw~ou and in Exk. 255. iilv
(n:nn, Yahwe thunders?' cp R, 6~. , ,dkcv 70; A,wu. In Josh. 13%~ Breads 'A i6 The Vulgrte
46 c d, where Ramman, the storm-god, is called the has Rdbz or Ribbath accordin; to the ~e%rew constructLon,
god in nmi, ie., 'of thunder' [Del, Ass. H WE. 6051 ; except in Jer. 49 3 Ezek. 25 5 where we have RobbrU for
the Phoen. proper name KlllDyl is no support, the 7 . In Polvb. ilisl v. 7 A. .. it annears .. as , onBBarauauo). . . .
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true reading being KlnDUl), one of the twelve leaders Rabbah is mentioned in Dt. 311 as the location of
of the Jews, Neh. 7rt (dorpra [K], pcrhwa [A], 6a~pu.r Og's 'lied' or sarcophagus (see BED, 5 3) : also in
[L], vaowco [El, uam~o ; the last two readings are ,, Histow. Josh. 1321, in connection with the borders
due to the proximity of NAHAMANI [q.u.]). Cp
of Gad. In 2 S. 11 f: I Ch. 20 we have
GOYBRNDIENT, 5 26.
an account of the siege and capturk of Rabbah by Joab
I" Eziaa? the name ir mirwritten ar REEL*,*", and in Zech. and David. In the oracles aeainst " Ammon bv Amos
72 (probably) as R ~cenlni~~~c~ (q.~.). All there forms recm
10 come from 'Jerahmeel'. The race-elemen, counts for much
Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, Rabbah represents Ammon, as
in the later history of Irrael [Chc.].
being its one important "ity. Jer. 49+ refers to the
treasurer and the well-watered valleys of Rabbzh, and
&bBms~S(Dpnn), Ex. 11,. see Ra~~sas and
Ezek. 255 Amor 1.4 to its palaces. These oracles
cp PITBOM.
announce the ruin of Rnbhah ar part of the putlirhmeut
BAB. The use of 17, m6, 'chief, head, leader' in of Ammon. In Ezek. 2110 Nebuchadrezzar hesitates
compound titles descriptive of rank or office (come- whether to march against Jerusalem or Rabbal~, but
rponding to the Gr. apyl-) ir ~ufficiently well exemplified decider for Jerusalem by carting lots. Thnr Kabbah
in Assyrian, Phieniciun, and Aramaic.
was the capital of Amn~on during the whole period of
Tvoicnl ..
examoicr are :-"ab 'tub-5nr-ri 'head scribe' free the history of the Ammonites, and shared their fortunes
SCRIBE), and rob ni&zd 'treasurer' (cp Heb. Dm?>), ..
see Del. throughout [see AMIION). It hac been suggested that
Ass. HWB@b, Phen. w,n>,. 'head workman' (CIS16*), Rabbah may be the Ham (see Haar. s) of tien 141.
OTED 3% ,hesd of the seribes'(i6. 86 m), CJ~, 37, 'head of the Rabbah continued an important city in post-exilic
prieitr' (ii.. rx9). Palm. ~ 5 % 1,. 'general; "n,.r. 37, 'leadcr times. It is not mentioned in OT in connection
of rhecarnvnn' (in Gk, bilinguals apon,*dn,r, ouvo8'/pmr1),
pw >,.'chief ofthemarker'r(cp K,IK ,,,'head~frhei~~~i');
with the Jewish history of the period; but the Ammonand
Nab. xn.vm 37, 'chief of the camdsl'
ires are referred to in Nehemiah. I Maccabees, and
Thls usage oi 2, seems to be wanting in the S. Judith. and doubtless Rabbath remained their capital.
Semitic stock, and in Hebrew is not frequent. Here Ptolemy Philadelphus, 285-247 B.c., gave it the name
the more comnron term enrployed is jar (71, peculiar
of Philadelphia, and probably by erecting buildings and
introducin~ settlers zave it the character of a Greek
to Heb.) which ir frequently found in pre-exilic writings
city: it Gcame on; of the most important cities of
(cp PRINCE), and its occurrence in the later literature
the Decapolir. Eur. Onom. 'Pop8 and 'Aprav.
should be looked upon in some cases, perhaps, as a In 218 a.r. it waslaken from Ptolemy Philopator hy Antiochur
sur~ival of a once popular idiom, and in others ac an Epipbrnr Paiyb. 517. In the timeof Hyrcrnur (rji-xo7n.c.)
intentional nichuism.
werFadof:~eno~uryles, tyrrnr ofPhtlndeiphha.Jor.Anf.xlll. 8 r
11, the renre of ,great' the Heb. rob is not common 153. According to a conjecture of Clermont-Ganneau, Rabbarh
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rhauld be read for Xadsbnth in I >1rcc.93,. rce N*D*B*TH.
in the early writings: the best instvncer being the I. as p.C. it we* held by ,he (jar. ~ji. who were
poetical fragment Gen. 25n3 ('elder ' opposed to Y ~ J ) , defeated there by Herod 0 0.c. (1. 195 an? 6). 1 he extenrive
Nu. 1133 (J or El, I K. 197, Am. 62. In agreement ~oma" rrmainr =how ihi: it prrici rtcd m the prorpenry of
Eastern Palestine in rhe seconfand tkrd centuries A,". Later,
with this is the usage of the Heb. compounds of 3, it was the scar of r Chrirdan bishopric. The F~JY is said by
which express a rank or office. Of foreign origin, on Abulfcdn (Rirt~r Tyr. -53) ro hive lxen m mlnr when the
the other hand, are the compounds Rab-ranr, Rab-
Modemi conque;ed Syria.
shakeh, and Rnb-mag, rhich appear to be titles borrowed Rabbah (the mod. 'Amnon) was situated on one of
from the Arryrian. The rest occur in later literature the head~warers of the Jabbok, about 22 m. E. of
only, and arbmere descriptions of office.
3, site, the Jordan. z S. 12~6.28 apparently distin-
It is rcry probabie that they have been formed rimnlv umn
~ ~
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guished between 'the royal city' or 'the city
Anyiirn or Rrbylanian analogy; (a) W": a?, 1 K. 258 (in an of waters,' and 'the city.' The 'waters' referred to in
.xiiicor pus,-exilic nnmriue, rsc KINGS,$ 2". 1): cp N:?: 37 the second of these names may be the Nahr 'Amrnzn, a
stream rich in fish, which taker its rise at the rite of
1 Xvd.ipx,,,r, apparendy, only in inrcription.. Liddell and Rabbah (so Buhl, Pal. 260 [B 1321). In that case
Scott cite Bbckh. ,439..
De Vog"6, L= Synr centrol8, nor. 6. 7, xi, 28, efc.
1 I" uan. a130 pi"?, 20 (see DEPUTY), =ad u:a~ln TI.
3 The exrt opposite is the case, however, with 2,. 'much.
465ri (ie MAGIC, $ ?D).
many' (as opposed lo CYn).
Compounds of 2, and ?v are alike rendered in B lly 6~x1-.