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•RAISINS dried grapes; mentioned 1 Samuel 25:18; 30:12; 2 Samuel 16:1; 1 Chronicles 12:40.
•RAKKATH shore-town, a “fenced city” of the tribe of Naphtali (Joshua 19:35). The old name of Tiberias, according to the Rabbins.
•RAKKON a place upon the shore, a town belonging to Dan (Joshua 19:46). It is now Tell er-Rakkeit, 6 miles north of Joppa, on the sea-shore, near the mouth of the river ‘Aujeh, i.e., “yellow water.” (See KANAH.)
•RAM exalted. (1.) The son of Hezron, and one of the ancestors of the royal line (Ruth 4:19). The margin of 1 Chronicles 2:9, also Matthew 1:3, 4 and Luke 3:33, have “Aram.”
(2.) One of the sons of Jerahmeel (1 Chronicles 2:25, 27).
(3.) A person mentioned in Job 32:2 as founder of a clan to which Elihu belonged. The same as Aram of Genesis 22:21.