Strong’s
H7552Proper name, a person6 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Numbers 31:8רֶקֶם
Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
- Joshua 13:21רֶקֶם
all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.
- 1 Chronicles 2:43וְרֶקֶם
The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
רֶ֫קֶם n.pr.
1. m.
a. a king of Midian
b. a ‘son’ of Hebron
c. name in Gilead
2. loc. in Benj.
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.