SUBJECT · Complete Bible Study
Large; extended (name of a woman) Rahab is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “proud; quarrelsome (applied to Egypt).” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
MAJOR STUDY · Resource Coverage 74/100
Move from the subject to its key Scripture, original-language evidence, and connected studies. The trail organizes research without deciding a theological conclusion.
Study overview
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Rahab
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Rahab, Rachab
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
Rahab.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
Rahab.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
Rahab
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
broad, large, at liberty, proud, wide.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 17
Source: Strong's Concordance · View data sources
Nave's Topical Bible
Source: Nave's Topical Bible · View data sources
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Josephus Antiquities Whiston
Antiquities Book 5, Chapter 1
Read ancient context →Josephus Antiquities Whiston
Antiquities Book 5, Chapter 11
Read ancient context →Topic
Nave’s Topical Bible references for RAHAB.
Open content →Dictionary
(1.) Heb. zonah (Gen. 34:31; 38:15). In verses 21, 22 the Hebrew word used in kedeshah, i.e., a woman consecrated or devoted to prostitution in connection with the abominable worship of Asherah or Astarte, the Syrian Venus. This word is also used in Deut. 23:17; Hos. 4:14. Thus Tamar sat by the wayside as a consecrated kedeshah. It has been attempted to show that Rahab, usually called a "harlot" (Josh. 2:1; 6:17; Heb. 11:31; James 2:25), was only an innkeeper. This interpretation, however, cannot be maintained. Jephthah's mother is called a "strange woman" (Judg. 11:2). This, however, merely denotes that she was of foreign extraction. In the time of Solomon harlots appeared openly in the streets, and he solemnly warns against association with them (Prov. 7:12; 9:14. See also Jer. 3:2; Ezek. 16:24, 25, 31). The Revised Version, following the LXX., has "and the harlots washed," etc., instead of the rendering of the Authorized Version, "now they washed," of 1 Kings 22:38. To commit fornication is metaphorically used for to practice idolatry (Jer. 3:1; Ezek. 16:15; Hos. throughout); hence Jerusalem is spoken of as a harlot (Isa. 1:21). (2.) Heb. nokriyah, the "strange woman" (1 Kings 11:1; Prov. 5:20; 7:5; 23:27). Those so designated were Canaanites and other Gentiles (Josh. 23:13). To the same class belonged the "foolish", i.e., the sinful, "woman." In the New Testament the Greek pornai, plural, "harlots," occurs in Matt. 21:31, 32, where they are classed with publicans; Luke 15:30; 1 Cor. 6:15, 16; Heb. 11:31; James 2:25. It is used symbolically in Rev. 17:1, 5, 15, 16; 19:2.
Open content →Dictionary
same as Rahab
Open content →Dictionary
large; extended (name of a woman)
Open content →Sign in to bookmark this study or add notes.