STRONGS NUMBER H7394


Word Summary
Rekab: perhaps "band of riders", a Benjamite, also the head of a nomadic family
Original Word: רֵכָב
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
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

רֵכָבproper 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 ׳מַלְכִּיָּהNehemiah 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 ׳בֵּיתJeremiah 35:2; 32:3; 35:18, בֵיתהָֿר ׳בְּנֵי35:3, Απχαβεί, Παχαβεί, etc.