Rakem (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Rekem. •The word rendered 'bow' by Sayce (f.c. 483) is, however, ver>' uncertain, other Assvriologists, aa Zimniern {ap. Gunkel, SchO/if. u. Chaos, 427), Jensen (KiMmil. 3S1 ; KIIS vi. 241), rendering 'Oeschmeide,' 'Intaglio.' Still, this may possibly denote the rainbow (Ball, Light jTom the East, 40 n.> KAKKATII ILAJMAII 197 RAKKATH (np-; ; B 'nMoffooostfl, Uie -SaKie repre- Bentiiij; npT by confusion of i with i, and the tirst part ot the compound standing for ran ' Hamiiiatli ' ; A'Peitnaff).— A 'fenced city' of Naphtali, Jos 19^. The later Habbis placed it at or near Tiberias (see Neubauer, Giog. du 'lalm. 208 f.). C. R. CONDER.