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Rahab

1. Also called RACHAB

(A woman of Jericho)

• Assists the spies of the Israelites
• —Jos 2
• Is spared when the Israelites captured Jericho
• —Jos 6:17-25
• An ancestor of Joseph of Nazareth
• —Mt 1:5
• The faith of, commended
• —Heb 11:31; Jas 2:25

2. A symbolic name applied to Egypt—Ps 87:4; 89:10; Isa 30:7; 51:9