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vn, whilep maybe mirwritten for 1%-ie.. pm). See
LAsxr, Nn~on, PADDAN-ARAM. 2. It is also plausible
to hold the view set forth in JACOB. 5 3, where it
is shown that there was possibly a still earlier tradition
which p~lt Laban's home at Hebion. At any rote, both
narrators have distinguished themrelver in the delineation
of Rehekdis character, which has some strong
points of affinity to that of her son Jacob. She war
according to MT, to Isaac's home at
Beer-IahaiGroi (ir, Beer-jerahmeel) by her nurse (2455).
rho, from the corrupt text of 358, in auppored to have
been named Debonh (see DINAH, col. ~roz, n. I).
Probably, however, the 'nurse' is not referred to, but
the 'precious possessions' (dl!". cp Y. 53) of the newly
won bride. In the view of the present writer Laban
was originally a southern Jerahmeelite, originally, it
may be, placed in the Negeb, so that he may also
have been called Tusa~ (p.v.)-a name which seema to
underlie 5~1n3 (Bethuel!). See, further. RACHEL. 8 a.
Possibly. Rehe& is a personification alternately of
the southern and of the northern Jerahmeelites. She
bas been, one may almost ray, created as a true woman,
with beating heart and planning brain, by J and E.
RECAE (321).
T. K. C.
I Ch. 4x2 RV, AV RECHAH.
BECEIVER ($@), Is. 3313, RV 'he that weighed
[the tribute].' Cp SCRIBE and TAXATION.
RECEAB (TI.'charioteer.' perhaps short for Benrechab[-el]-i.r.,
son of Reknbrel] :% hut more probably
an ethnic of the Negeb[Che.]. p~x&B ; hut in I Ch. 255.
pHXa [BI, and in Jer. 3514 ~HXOB [K"]. On pxap in
Judg. 119, see Moore's note).
7. One of the murderers of lrhbo~heth (2 S. 41s : pexxa [B,
in m. r,? 91). Hi5 farher wu R~MMON (f.".).
- The cpnym of the RECH*BIT~S (2 K. 1015 el. 856 .).
A 'son of Rechah'ir r 'Rechabite'; so even m dh.314$ee
M*LC"I,*". 7).
RECHABITES [aouss or THE] (n+plg n'3:
OIKOC APX~BEIN IRK]. AAX~BEIN or X&P&BBIN [PI.
paxaB1~11~ [Ql. p~xaBlral [Sym.]). The Rechah~te?
have usually been onsidered to be a sort of religiour
order, analogour to the N~zmrr~s [g.~.], tracing it:
origin to the Jehonadab or JONADAB, son of Rechab,
who lent his countenance to Jehu in the violent abolitior
of Baal-worship. In Jer. 35 we meet with the Rechabites
as continuing to observe the rule of Life ordained b)
Jonadab their 'father,' abstaining from wine anc
dwelling in tents in theland of Judah tillthe Babyloniar
invuion forced them to take refuge in Jenisalen
(JEREMLAH ii., § 17). According to Ewald (CVI 3 ia)
Schrader (BL5@), and Smend (Re/.-~8~ch.l~I 93 f
the" were an Israelitish sect which re~rerented tht
reaction against Canaanitish eivilisation,'and took tht
Keiiitrs-the old allies of Israel-as a model. I,
1 Aconnection between the names Hebran and Ribhh ha
heen zlreadr rurpecied by G. H. Bateion Wright (Wai rrrar
Eve? in Egypt 5 180).
3 SO, in the main H ~ D-E ~ grgrjfiiscb ~ a, ~ p. I
Bar-mk=b,b[.ell -r a'roy~l at Srmi.1 jn N. sy.2
R~kabcl (or REkUb'el) wan probably a chanotecr-god, rh,
rdpi*prSpar of rhe sun (cp 'chariots of the run ' z K. 28~~). Se
G. Ho6mann (who hoeareads Rakknb-'el) ZA 1856, p. 951: Sachau
'hrn 11~1~briften' in SBAW, 182, 41.'
RECHABITES [HOUSE OF THE]
r Ch. Zs5d, however, the 'houseofRechab'isrepresented
is belonging to the Kenites, and in r Ch. 41s (BnL) the
6v8p.r pnxap (MT n37 'YIK, BA 6. pn+a, RV 'the men
mf Recah') including TEHINNAH (perhaps Kinah=
Kenitel appear among the dercendantr of Cheluh'
i=Calebl. We have no rieht " to set this statement
uide on the ground of the late date of the Chronicler.
It is perfectly credible that the Keniter who dwelt in
tents among the Israelites long continued to feel themselves
the special guardians of the pure religion of
Yahwb, and were honoured as such by Jeremiah. Budde
assume, that in the time of Jehu a Rechabite named
lonadab formally reim~ored the old obligations on his
fellow-clansmen, at the same time perhaps offering the
privileges of fellowship to thore from outside who
accepted the Rechabite rule of Life, and thus converting
it to some extent into a religious order.= Thir is a
plausible hypothesis, and rests upon the assumption
that the Jonadab spoken of in Jer. 356-1014 16 18 ir the
Jonadahwho had a connection with Jehu. It is possible.
however, that the true name of the reputed father of the
Kenites not Hobab but Janadah (see HOBAB).
Thir hypothesis is, at any rate, simpler than the other
for the Rechabite laws are thowcharacterirtic of nomad
races+.