2 others in the registry answer to the name Rahab. Every Rahab in the Bible
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Job 9:13
- last named
- Isaiah 51:9
Description
Rahab in the text
Rahab is a poetic name used in the Old Testament to refer to Egypt, often represented as a mythical sea monster or dragon. The name Rahab means "proud" or "arrogant" in Hebrew. In Job.9.13 and 26:12, Rahab is mentioned in the context of God's power over creation and His ability to subdue the forces of chaos. In Psalm 89:10, God is praised for crushing Rahab and scattering His enemies, using the defeat of this sea monster as a metaphor for His triumph over the nations. Similarly, in Isaiah 51:9, the prophet calls upon God to awaken and defeat Rahab as He did in ancient times, using this imagery to plead for God's intervention on behalf of His people. The use of Rahab as a poetic name for Egypt emphasizes the nation's pride and opposition to God, while also highlighting God's supreme power and authority over all earthly powers.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- LORD2 events
- Understanding1 event
The pattern
Where Rahab is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
4 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Job (2), Psalms (1) and Isaiah (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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