Lexical Definition

‎רִבְלָה‎ Riblâh (rib-law') Riblah ^N:N--L
from an unused root meaning to be fruitful; fertile

Riblah.

• § Riblah = "fertility"
• Riblah, a place in Syria

1) a place on the eastern boundary of Israel
2) a town in the land of Hamath on the great road between Babylon and Palestine

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎רִבְלָה‎

proper name, of a location 1. ‎׳‎‎ו‎ in land of Hamath 2Kgs 23:33; 2Kgs 25:21 = Jer 52:27; Jer 39:6 with ‎ה‎ locative, ‎רִבְ֫לָתָךְ‎ 2Kgs 25:6; 2Kgs 25:20 = Jer 52:26, also ('in land of Hamath') Jer 39:5; Jer 52:9 ‎בְּרִבְלָ֑תָה‎ vJer 52:10 read ‎רִבְדָמל֫תָה‎ also Ezek 6:14 (for ᵑ0 ‎׳‎‎דִּב‎, see [ ‎דִּבְלָה‎]); ᵐ5 usually Δεβλαθα (also Ezek 6:14); modern Ribla on Orontes, Rob^{BR ii. 507}; iii. 543 ff. Bd^{Pal 3. 405.}

2. ‎(מִשְּׁפָם) הָרִבְלָה‎ Num 34:11, on northeast border of land of Israel, certainly not so far north as 1, but site unknown; ᵐ5 ἀπὀ σεπφαμαρ Βηλα, whence Di and others conjecture ‎הַרְבֵּ֫לָךְ‎, but not Harmel, 8 miles southwest from ‎׳‎‎ו‎ 1 (Wetzst^{ZAW iii (1883), 274 f.}), see Dr^{Hast. DB}.

‎רַבמָֿ֑ג‎, ‎רַבסָֿרִיס‎ see II. ‎רַב‎.

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