Bath-Rabbim

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Smith's Bible Dictionary [1]

Bath-rab'bim. (Daughter Of Many). The Gate Of Bathrabbim . One of the gates of the ancient city of Heshbon .  Song of Solomon 7:4-5.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]

Bath-Rabbim (‘daughter of multitudes’). The name of a gate of Heshbon, near which were pools, to which the Shulammite’s eyes are compared (  Song of Solomon 7:4 ).

R. A. S. Macalister.

Holman Bible Dictionary [3]

 Song of Solomon 7:4Heshbon

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]

(Heb. Bath-rabbim', בִּתאּרִבַּים Daughter Of Many; Sept. translates literally Θυγατὴρ Τολλῶν ), the name of one of the gates of the ancient city of Heshbon, by ( עִל ) which were two "pools," to which Solomon likens the eyes of his beloved ( Song of Solomon 7:4 [5]). The "Gate of Bath- rabbim" at Heshbon would, according to the Oriental custom, be the gate pointing to a town of that name. The only place in this neighborhood at all resembling Bath-rabbim in sound is Rabbah (Amman ) , but the one tank of which we gain any intelligence as remaining at Heshbon is on the opposite (S.) side of the town to Amman (Porter, Handbook, p. 298).

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