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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904) · Public Domain

Rissah (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain

A camping place of the children of Israel, noted only in Nu 33-'- -^. It has been proposed to identify it with liasa in the Peutinger Tables, on the road from the Gulf of Akabah to Jerusalem, or with 'P^tra of Jos. Ant. xrv. xiii. 9, xv. 2, BJ I. xiii. 8; but according to some MSS this place is 9p^o^o. A. T. Chapman.

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