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RAB-BHAKEE
He=kid~ InK 18x7 : Ph@€4C [Bll ph%cbP61c [A], punishmeno refwd to range from tha awarded hy a
pavekc 11-1 ; rodrarir), ntld (6) an &cer present st the mae local coun (' BFth-din') to that by th. Sanhedrin.
capture of Jerunlem (1s. $93, NaBoYChp€!c [B]. and finally to that of the Sery &henna. Holtamann,
-caplc [NQl. -CEBIC [N*] and p&E&p~c LPN Id. however, undustate the ofknsiveness sf Raea and
and Theod. ~n u. r3 where &!A om.; r&mr). In bth e*a&?geIaIes chat of pqi. Rara (cp Jn. 0,) involvas
parrogPr, howevci, we should pmibly read either >?y mwal mare than intellectual de~iation, and +ugdr
YIL"N, 'Arabia of Asshur' (cp TARSHIS") or o'np ?@. newhem in lhe NT bear. the sena of 'impious' (the
%the prince of the Arabians' (see XERGAL-SHAR~ER) ;
0T $a ; see FOOL). Nor is it at all prohable that
indeed in the case of Jer. (I.'.) the probability is very
Jestu would hate remgniaed lhe provisional institution
of the Sanhedrin ride by side nith the Mwsianic punishstrong.
As to z K. (I.c.) a doubt is permissible jcp
ment
SENNACHICRIB, 5 5). and we therefore offer
of Oehenna, and orrieed the punishment of one
the viewr
of Rab-saris which are possible on the assumption that
aMld\'e wprerion to the former, and of another to the
an Assyrian in\mion Was really referred to in the
latter. The text must haw auffeied s slight disarrangeoriginal
narrative. The title has men been interpreted
ment : the clause about Keca should be parallel to the
chief eunuch.' and Schrader (KAW 3x9) thinks that
clause about murder. Read probably thus. 'Ye have
it may he the translation of a COmrponding Assyrian
hard that Lt was said lo the ancients, Thou shalt not
murder, and whosoever murders is liable to the judgphnisc
(so Dil1m.-Kittel, Ie~~in, 3fz). This, at any
late, ir not wry probable.
ment, md whosaever ays ' Kan' to his brother, is
Wiockler mnectured (Ud4rr. 138) that It war a re mductian liable to the Sanhedrin. But I ray nnto you. Every one
ofan rrtihcirl Ass. phrase rdd-&-&-a 1earn.d snfle,s inter. who is angry with his brother is liable lo the (divine)
prc,tation of rd-mg (RAn.$LIAf6A), which $8 half Sumetlmn: judgment, and whoever says, Thou fool, is liable to the
whde, accordln~ to Pinchrl (letter In nrd., June as, 18~2).
rab-in--& 'chief of the heads' was the title
fiery Gehenna.' The Law as expounded by 'the Rabbis
of the
officer wh; had charge d the royal prices (FP Dan. 1 g). treated libelious expresrionr' as next door to murder.
Finally Del (Ass HiVA registen ;o.n$ kt the title d di Rut such gi- offences er murder and calling another
c~urt-~Ehciaiorun~ert~~imcanmg. wemr plausibly hold char ' Kaa' could never occur if on the one hand anger upre
the second element in rab-reris IS ~ oth ~ e L and w Aqvisn
brn rimsrily Arrylian(ae EUNUCR) ?mithat rab.Tarir(=~eb: nipped in the bud, and m the other even such seemingly
nb~&lii) mcans ~hiofcacsin. If so. at hardlydiA~nfrom RAB. harmless expressions or 'thou simpleton' (pup() were
S"*l;X" (q*).
scmpuiously awided. So first J. P. Peters (/BL
Elow 1'070 m in Dan. 13 (cp v. 9) is to be understood, 101s1f. p tag^]: 15tq [r896]), exFepf that he preierr
ir nut auite clear. The conlert tuseertr -" that the 5mter
~ to repent 'It ull% said.' etc., and 'But I ray,' avoiding
mirunderrtood the phrase which he found already mt. rearrangpment. See FWL. T. K. c
ruptd in 2 K. 18x7; fot eunuchs, having the charge of
ro)-nl harems, were frequently employed in ruperintend- BACAL. AV KACHAL.
ing tile education oi princes. See EONUCH. 6ven if RAW. FiAO&COURSfi. See nenerallv HEI.~_ENthe
story of Daniel hu beel, recast, this explanation may, ISM, 8 5 (with references). '
~ ~fi5t~;h.f.
at any rate, serve proviaionally. T. K. C. 'Rae' is en apt relidcring of s d h u in I Cor. 9 1, (RVm6
'race-courrc') and of lyrjv Oil. mnrert) in Hlb. 12 1. In Pr.
RBB-sIIAKBH(~~~)$-~'~; ~&~&KHc[BHAQPOCL]; 195 RV prcfrtaWy rcnderr '3rd~">)by croum.' I" Eccler.
nrhinrei). the title (so RVW. ; se. RAB) of the officer
~n a6atrsctr'running'lkn ran.
sent hy lhe Asspin" kihg 10 Hetekixh (e K. 18it-10 :
Ir. 38 J ,"d in the Heb. original of Ecclus. 48 18. AV
RAesAces ; p(rBcan~c. Is 36a[B]r=hse 37,[RVmu-]
Sti.~[Qmp.] ~is[~'y-lr.]). In its Heh fotm it hasbcen
taken tomean 'chidcup-bearer': hutacuplx;lrer uuuid
not have been intrusted ailh important political business.
'The word is thr CIR~ reprdactior. of the Asryr. mb.
hrb 'chief of the hlgh ones' (i.~., oltlcets)--for so the
Ral) SAG or Rab SAG* of the lnactiptionr should be
rend (Del. .4ri. HIVE, 6685n). This wan the title of n
~n~litary officer, inferior to the Tartan, but of very high
rank. A rcib-ia+e wwaa despatched to Tyie by 'riglathj>ileser
111, lo arrange about tribute (tiR223. cp Del.
I . Just so tile Rab-shakeh goes (with the Tartan,
nccorditlg to a K.) to Jemnlrm. He is ncqnuinted both
with Hebrew ('the Jess' language,' 1 K. 1S16) and with
Arnmnic : sllch n lending diplomatist needed no dragolilnn.
Sirm the time of Tlglath-pii~rer IIt. there was
n large :\mms?n population in Assyrin. Cp Schr.
A-.i 71'1 320 ; AKAMAIC, 5 2. If holvever, the original
narrative referred to a N. Arabian nrher than an
Assyrian incursion, the name underlying Rab-shakeh
may very possibly bc'ArSb-kOi, 'Arabia of Cush.' Cp
RA>I-SAKIS. T. K. C.
RAGA [Ti.], P&K& [Treg. U'H]: probably
an nbbrerintrrl f ~~rm of the Rahb. xi).,; cp Kau. Gem.
1:;bi. Artt?n. to; Dnlm. Ant*. Glen. t38, n, a ; for
interchange of I( and x cp Dalrn. ib. 304. n. n. and see
.\rer.oA~A, 5 r).a term of abuse in the time of Christ,
hlr. 5rzt Whether it conveys~moreola less offensive
meaning than pup4 (EV. ' Thdu fool') is dirpated :
indeed, the \?hole passage. rs it stands, is obscure.
According to Holtrmann, there is B do~ible climax in
the clauses introduced by 'Rut I say to you' ; (r) from
vmth in the heart to its expression in a word, and
fiorn the denial of the intellectual capacity of a brother
to that of his moral and religious character, while the
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RBOHBL
RACEAL. RV. RACAL For ,in Rachal' (5>3) in
1 S. 3O.g we ought, probably, following QBL (EN
napmwho, but SN pax~h [A]), to read 'in Carmel'
(5~732): so all critlcs-, Anecesrary ernendation' (Bu.,
.S??OT). See CAK~EL, 1, ml. 706.
RACHEL (5n.i. ,ewe,' see WRS Kin. arg,l paxllh
[BNADEQL]), the 'mother' of the tribes of Israel
la, No mem settled in the highlands of West Palestine,
becween the Canaabite strips of territory
n6me,
at Esdmelon and Aijalon. Rachel died
when Benjamin or Benoni was born (Gen.a5~6$).
was there, we mny ask, at some remote period, a distinct
clan with the ewe ' RShel ' as its totem, and the ' "3-
sebah of Rachel's zmve' (see RACHEL'S Sa8~u~r~nsl
is its chief ~ncred;~ot? 'The members af such a cia;
would be line RahPI. They all lived in Lphraim ; but
in time some came to be banded together, as Jeminites
(H~WIAMIN, 5 I). Then. perhaps. the others began
to drop the name line RBhel in favour of something
e16e(cp JU~EPH i. 9 e : ErHRAlY, 5 5 ii, ; MANASSEH.
5 1 . Rachel, certainly, as far as we can sh, war
no mere name, as in historical times was 1.enh. In
Jer. 91 ri (cp Mr. 218) ue hear of Rachel \verping for
Cheyne ~ach;l
of '&D&; &ahmeel
~ A ~ Oa V a , SHAPIAN, ~ nd for .imiliarly dduitrul .-
LEA".,
may be a f;=%&'~