רֵכָהRêkâh
proper name [of a location]: in Judah (1 Chronicles 4:12)
Pronunciation: ray-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7397
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 4:12 Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah. Tehinnah was the father of Ir-nahash. These were the descendants of Recah.
- Jeremiah 35:2 “Go to the settlement where the families of the Recabites live, and invite them to the Lord’s Temple. Take them into one of the inner rooms, and offer them some wine.”
- Jeremiah 35:3 So I went to see Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah and grandson of Habazziniah and all his brothers and sons—representing all the Recabite families.
- Jeremiah 35:5 I set cups and jugs of wine before them and invited them to have a drink,
- Jeremiah 35:18 Then Jeremiah turned to the Recabites and said, “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have obeyed your ancestor Jehonadab in every respect, following all his instructions.’
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).