Revive
In some of the examples of ' revive ' In .W it is evident that the meaning is literally to come back to life from the dead (or transitively to bring back to life). Thus 1 K 17=" The soul of the child came into him again, and he revived' ; 2 K 13'*' ' When tlie man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet' ; Neh 4' ' Will they revive the stones out of tlie heaps of tlie rubbish which are burned?'; Ro 14" ' Christ both died, and rose, and revived.'
And, even when this is not the meaning, the word i;arries greater force than it now bears to us. Thus Ro 7' 'When the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.' Cf. Erasmus, Commune Crede, 89, 'It Is more probable by the deade to understonde those that have departed from theyr bodies afore th« daye of judgemente (for as soiie as they shall be revived and risen agayne, they shall be judged)' | Lk 15^ Rhem. ' This my soune was dead, and ia revived' ; and Shaks. I Henry VI. I. 1.
18 — Henry is dead, and never shall revive. J. Hastings. REZEPH (in. ; B'Pd^fit, B'" "Pd.^fs, A Tr,v 'Pd^td, 2K 19'-; BQ°« 'Pd0£9, nQ* 'I'd^es, A Pd^.f, Is 37'- ; Vulg. Bosepk 2 K 19'=, Kesejph Is 37'^).— Mentioned in the message of the Rabsliakeh of Sennacherib to Hezekiah, when demanding the surrender of Jerusalem, with Gozan and Ilaran, and the children of Eden which were in Tehissar.
The district in which this town was situated be- longed, for several centuries, to Ass3'ria, and its name occurs, as was to be expected, many times in the Assyrian records, generally under the form Rasapjia (also Basapa and Eosapi). The site ia now represented by Rusufa, between Palmyra and the Euphrates, and is thought to be the 'V-qaaipa. of Ptolemy (v. 15).
The earliest mention of the place in the Assyrian records is in the Eponym Canon, where we learn that Ninip-kibsi-usur was the prefect in B.C. 839. From B.C. 804 to 774, the prefect was Igi-guba-eres, or Ninip-Sres, who, judging from the length of his term, and the fact that he was twice eponym, must have enjo}"ed the contidence of his superiors to an unusual degree. Other prefects mentioned as having held the office of eponym were Sin-saJlim-anni in 747, and B6l-6mur-anni in B.C. 737.
As all the above-named prefects of Rezeph have Assyrian names, it is very probable that they were, without exception, Assyrians. The tablet K 9921, however, mentions a governor {hi;l pihati) named Abda',* \\\\o seems to bear a native name, and probably held otKce at a later date than the eponyms whose names are given by the Assyrian Canon. The district was an important trade-centre in ancient times, as the tablets and lists from Nineveh show. LiTERATCKE.— Delitzsch, Parodies, p.
297: Schrader in Riehm, HWB.s.v., COT ii.n. 1. G. PINCHES.