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rahab

rahab


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Rahab 
  insolence;  pride,  a  poetical  name  applied  to  Egypt  in  Ps  87:4; 
  89:10;  Isa.  51:9,  as  "the  proud  one." 
 
  Rahab,  (Heb.  Rahab;  i.e.,  "broad,"  "large").  When  the  Hebrews 
  were  encamped  at  Shittim,  in  the  Arabah"  or  Jordan  valley 
  opposite  Jericho,  ready  to  cross  the  river,  Joshua,  as  a  final 
  preparation,  sent  out  two  spies  to  "spy  the  land."  After  five 
  days  they  returned,  having  swum  across  the  river,  which  at  this 
  season,  the  month  Abib,  overflowed  its  banks  from  the  melting  of 
  the  snow  on  Lebanon.  The  spies  reported  how  it  had  fared  with 
  them  (Josh.  2:1-7).  They  had  been  exposed  to  danger  in  Jericho, 
  and  had  been  saved  by  the  fidelity  of  Rahab  the  harlot,  to  whose 
  house  they  had  gone  for  protection.  When  the  city  of  Jericho 
  fell  (6:17-25),  Rahab  and  her  whole  family  were  preserved 
  according  to  the  promise  of  the  spies,  and  were  incorporated 
  among  the  Jewish  people.  She  afterwards  became  the  wife  of 
  Salmon,  a  prince  of  the  tribe  of  Judah  (Ruth  4:21;  1  Chr.  2:11; 
  Matt.  1:5).  "Rahab's  being  asked  to  bring  out  the  spies  to  the 
  soldiers  (Josh.  2:3)  sent  for  them  is  in  strict  keeping  with 
  Eastern  manners,  which  would  not  permit  any  man  to  enter  a 
  woman's  house  without  her  permission.  The  fact  of  her  covering 
  the  spies  with  bundles  of  flax  which  lay  on  her  house-roof  (2:6) 
  is  an  'undesigned  coincidence'  which  strictly  corroborates  the 
  narrative.  It  was  the  time  of  the  barley  harvest,  and  flax  and 
  barley  are  ripe  at  the  same  time  in  the  Jordan  valley,  so  that 
  the  bundles  of  flax  stalks  might  have  been  expected  to  be  drying 
  just  then"  (Geikie's  Hours,  etc.,  ii.,  390). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Rahab,  proud;  quarrelsome  (applied  to  Egypt) 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Rahab,  large  extended  (name  of  a  woman)