International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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Riches

rich'-ez, rich'-iz: Used to render the following Hebrew and Greek words:(1) `Osher, which should, perhaps, be considered the most general word, as it is the most often used (Ge ...

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Rid; Riddance

rid, rid'-ans: "Rid" originally meant "rescue" (the King James VersionGe 37:22;Ex 6:6;Ps 82:4;144:7,11), whence the meaning "remove" or "clean out" (Le 26:6the King James Versio...

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Riddle

rid'-'-l (chidhah; ainigma).SeeGAMES.

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Rie

ri "Rye" (King James Version,Ex 9:32;Isa 28:25).SeeSPELT.

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Right

rit (yashar, mishpaT; dikaios, euthus): Many Hebrew words are translated "right," with different shades of meaning. Of these the two noted are the most important: yashar, with t...

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Righteousness

ri'-chus-nes (tsaddiq, adjective, "righteous," or occasionally "just" tsedheq, noun, occasionally = "riahteousness," occasionally = "justice"; dikaios, adjective, dikaiosune, no...

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Rimmon (1)

rim'-on:(1) The rock Rimmon (cela` rimmon; he petra Rhemmon): The place of refuge of the 600 surviving Benjamites of Gibeah (Jeba`) who "turned and fled toward the wilderness un...

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Rimmon (2)

(rimmon, "pomegranate"; see RIMMON-PEREZ):(1) A Syrian god. Naaman the Syrian leper after being cured is troubled over the fact that he will still have to bow down in the house ...

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Rimmon-Perez

rim-mon-pe'-rez (rimmon perets; the King James Version Rimmon-parez): A desert camp of the Israelites (Nu 33:19f), unidentified. Gesenius translates rimmon as "pomegranate," the...

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Rimmon, Rock Of

See RIMMON, (1).

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Rimmonah; Rimmono

rim-mo'-na, rimmo'-no.See RIMMON, (3).

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Ring

(Anglo-Saxon, Hring, "ring"): The word renders (the American Standard Revised Version) two Hebrew words (in the King James Version and the English Revised Version three) and two...

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Ringleader

ring'-led-er: InAc 24:5the translation of protostates, "one who stands first." Not an opprobrious word in the Greek.

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Ringstreaked

ring'-strekt (the King James Version and the English Revised Version ringstraked):Ge 30:35,39,40;31:8(twice),10,12 for `aqodh. In the context ofGe 30:35, etc., `aqodh certainly ...

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Rinnah

rin'-a (rinnah, "praise to God"; Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Ana; Codex Alexandrinus Rhannon): A Judahite, according to Massoretic Text a son of Shimon (1Ch 4:20). But the Septu...

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Riot

ri'-ut: Properly, "unrestrained behavior" of any sort, but in modern English usually connoting mob action, although such phrases as a "riotous banquet" are still in common use. ...

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Riphath

ri'-fath (riphath): A son of Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet (Ge 10:3;1Ch 1:6, where Massoretic Text and the Revised Version (British and American) readDIPHATH(which see)). Jose...

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Rising

riz'-ing (se'eth, "a tumor," "swelling" (Le 13:2,10, etc.)).SeeLEPROSY.

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Rissah

ris'-a (riccah, "dew"): A camp of the Israelites in the wilderness wanderings between Libnah and Kehelathah (Nu 33:21f).SeeWANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.

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Rithmah

rith'-ma (rithmah, "broom"): A desert camp of the Israelites (Nu 33:18,19). The name refers to the white desert broom.SeeWANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.

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River

riv'-er:(1) The usual word is nahar (Aramaic nehar (Ezr 4:10, etc.)), used of the rivers of Eden (Ge 2:10-14), often of the Euphrates (Ge 15:18, etc.), of Abana and Pharpar (2Ki...

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River Of Egypt

SeeBROOK OF EGYPT.

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River, The (Great)

SeeEUPHRATES.

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Rivers Of Eden

See EDEN (1).

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Rizia

riz'-i-a (ritsya'): An Asherite (1Ch 7:39).

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Rizpah

riz'-pa (ritspah, "hot stone"; Josephus, Rhaispha): In2Sa 3:7the subject of a coarse slander.2Sa 21contains the pathetic story of Rizpah's faithful watch over the bodies of her ...

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Road (Inroad)

rod the King James Version (1Sa 27:10; compare1Sa 23:27).SeeRAID.