ROCK OF AGES See AGES, ROCK OF; ISAIAH, VII. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ROCK OF AGES'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

ROCK rok ((1) cela`; (2) tsur (3) challamish, "flint"; compare Arabic khalanbus, "flint"; (4) kephim (Job 30:6;"); compare Kephas, "Cephas" = Petros, "Peter" (John 1:42 the King James Version and the Revised Version margin); (5) petra): 1. Names: Tsur and cela` are the words most often found, and there is no well-defined distinction between them.

ROBOAM ro-bo'-am (Rhoboam). the King James Version; Greek form of "Rehoboam" (thus the Revised Version (British and American)) (Matthew 1:7); successor of Solomon. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ROBOAM'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915

ROBE rob. See DRESS, sec. 1, (3). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ROBE'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

ROBBERS OF TEMPLES (hierosuloi, "guilty of sacrilege"): A term used by the town clerk of Ephesus (Acts 19:37, the King James Version "robbers of churches"). As the temple of Diana (Artemas) had a great treasure-chamber, the offense might not be unknown among them; compare Romans 2:22. In 2 Macc 4:42 the King James Version the epithet "church-robb

ROBBER; ROBBERY rob'-er, rob'-er-i: "Robber" represents no particular Hebrew word in the Old Testament, but in the Apocrypha and the New Testament is always a translation of lestes (see THIEF). In the King James Version Job 5:5; 18:9, "robber" stands for the doubtful word tsammim, the Revised Version (British and American) "hungry" in JObadiah 5:5

ROAD (WAY) See ROMAN EMPIRE AND CHRISTIANITY, II, 6; WAY. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ROAD (WAY)'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

ROAST See FOOD. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ROAST'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

ROAD (INROAD) rod the King James Version (1 Samuel 27:10; compare 1 Samuel 23:27). See RAID. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ROAD (INROAD)'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

RIZPAH riz'-pa (ritspah, "hot stone"; Josephus, Rhaispha): In 2 Samuel 3:7 the subject of a coarse slander. 2 Samuel 21 contains the pathetic story of Rizpah's faithful watch over the bodies of her dead sons Mephibosheth and Armoni (21:10,11). Did this story suggest Tennyson's "Rizpah"? A three years' famine had made David anxious, and in seeking

RIZIA riz'-i-a (ritsya'): An Asherite (1 Chronicles 7:39). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'RIZIA'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

RIVERS OF EDEN See EDEN (1). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'RIVERS OF EDEN'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

RIVER, THE (GREAT) See EUPHRATES. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'RIVER, THE (GREAT)'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

RIVER riv'-er: (1) The usual word is nahar (Aramaic nehar (Ezra 4:10, etc.)), used of the rivers of Eden (Genesis 2:10-14), often of the Euphrates (Genesis 15:18, etc.), of Abana and Pharpar (2 Kings 5:12), the river of Gozan (2 Kings 17:6), the river Chebar (Ezekiel 1:1), the rivers (canals?) of Babylon (Psalms 137:1), the rivers of Ethiopia (Isa

RIVER OF EGYPT See BROOK OF EGYPT. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'RIVER OF EGYPT'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

RITHMAH rith'-ma (rithmah, "broom"): A desert camp of the Israelites (Numbers 33:18,19). The name refers to the white desert broom. See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'RITHMAH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

RISSAH ris'-a (riccah, "dew"): A camp of the Israelites in the wilderness wanderings between Libnah and Kehelathah (Numbers 33:21). See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'RISSAH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

RISING riz'-ing (se'eth, "a tumor," "swelling" (Leviticus 13:2,10, etc.)). See LEPROSY. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'RISING'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

RIPHATH ri'-fath (riphath): A son of Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet (Genesis 10:3; 1 Chronicles 1:6, where Massoretic Text and the Revised Version (British and American) read DIPHATH (which see)). Josephus (Ant., I, vi, 1) identifies the Ripheans with the Paphlagonians, through whose country on the Black Sea ran the river "Rhebas" (Pliny, NH, vi.

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. the King James Version uses the word in the first sense, and it is retained by the Revised Version (British and American) in Luke 15:13; Titus 1:6; 1 Peter 4:4 for aso