s.D. T. G. Pinches.
REHUM (Din-))- — ^- 0"e of the twelve heads of the Jewish community who are said to have re- turned with Zeruhbabel, Ezr 2- (B om., A 'Ipeovii). In the parallel pas.sage Neh 7' the name appears, perhaps by a copyist's error, as Nehum (LXX XaoiV) ; in 1 Es 5" it is RoiMUS (LXX'PieiAios). 2. ' The chancellor,' who, along with Shimshai the scribe and others, wrote a letter to king Artaxerxes, which had the ell'ect of stopping for the time the rebuilding of Jerusalem, Ezr 4*- "• "• *^. In 1 Es 2'" be is called Kathumus. The title for CHANCELLOR (DSJB-Si'S, lit. 'lord of judgment'), being misunder- stood by the LXX, appears in the latter passage as a proper name ('PdSu/ios /to! Bc^XtcSjios) ; see HeeltethMUS. In Ezr 4* B has 'Pooi>\ jiaonTaiUv, in v.''Paoi>/t pi.a\, and in v." 'Paoi>(i ^a\yd/i, while A has uniformly 'Peoifi' ^aaXriii. 3. A Levite who helped to repair the wall, Neh 3" (B WaaovB, XA'Paoii^). 4. One of those who sealed the cove- nant, Neh 10--'<="l ('Paoi'/i). 5. (c-r,) The eponym of a priestly family which returned with Zer\ibbabel, Neb 12MB A om., N'-" <'°« 'Veov^). The name nm in this last instance is not improbably a textual error for onn Harim, cf. t.". J. A. Seliiie.
REI (Heb. 'Vi_, probably = ' the Lord is a friend'; Pesh. Q_>_L) [•"'-■i > and > being confounded] ;
LXX B 'Vnal, A 'Vnaii ; Vulg. ReA, iJAci).— Accord- ing to the MT of 1 K V this is the name of one of the influential supporters of Solomon at the critical moment when Adonijah was preparing to dispute the succession to the throne. It is im- possible to be quite certain that the reading is
correct, but the balance of evidence is in its favour. Lucian's 2a/xafas Kal ol iraipoL aurou ol fii'Tes dwaroi rests on a dilierent division of the Hebrew letters, not a dilierent text — 'an v;;t instead of 'in; •j;i. Jos. Ant. VII. xiv. 4, has 6 AaoviSou (piXo;, thug making Shimei into the 'friend,' the royal official of 2 S 15" It)'", and, with Lucian, getting rid of Rei altogether. But if ,Iosephus is supposed to be following a Heb. original pretty closely, that original would here be ilJiEri j;-i or nhnn n^l, and it is not easy to believe that the much longer form of the MT, nin^ ^;;■.s D'T^^i?) 'I'l, has grown out of this. Klostermann's conjectural emendation, n.b^^ vj;i; {Die liilcher Sam. u. Kon. p. 263), scarcely commends itself (see Benzinger, cid loc), nor is there sufficient support fur Winckler's (Gesch. ii. 247) identilication of Kei with Ira, or, as he would spell it, Ya'ir of 2 S 20-".
As to the pair of names, Shimei and Rei, Ewald [Gesch. iii. p. 266, note) thought that they might belong to the two brothers of David, Shammah and Raddai, who are mentioned 1 S 16' 17''', 1 Ch 2". But the double alteration of rrjs? into •y.';? and Ti into 'V"! is somewhat unlikely. Perhaps one may add that the LXX 'PT/tri seems to have originated in a mistaken reading of s for y.
Assuming that Rei must stand in the text, it is fairly certain that the man thus designated was an officer of the royal guard. The important part plaj-ed by these troops in determining the suc- cession to the throne, as well as the mention of the gibburim immediately after Shimei and Rei, points in this direction. J. TayloB.
REINS. — This name for the kidneys is now obsolete, though RV retains it in all its 18* occurrences in AV. It comes from Lat. rcnes the kidneys, through Old Fr. rr.ins, whUe 'kidneys' is of Seand. origin. The word was always used with some freedom. Thus Cov. translates Ezk 29' ' Vlf they leaned upon the, thou brakest, and hurtdest the reynes of their backes' ; and in AV it is once used for the loins (Is 11°). This indeliniteness and not any sense of its becoming antiquated must have leil tlie AV translators to use the word only figuratively, to express those feelings or emotions which %\ere understood by the Hebrews to have their seat in the kidneys. Only in the marg. of Lv '22'' is the literal use found. The lit. sense ia common enough in writers of the day und later. Thus Bacon, Essays, p. 2u5, ' Bowling is good tor the Stone and Reines ; and Milton, FL fi. 34(J—
' For Spirits, that live throu^hoal Vital in every part— not, as frail Slan, In entrails, heart or lieait, liver or reioB — Cannot but by annihilating die.'
' When,' says Driver {Par. Psulter, 454), 'it is said of God that he trietli (or seeth) the "hearts and reins" (Ps 7», Jer IV-" 17'" '20'-), it is implied that He is cognizant of man's emotions and affections, not less than of his thoughts.' See Kidneys.
J. Hastings. REKEM (Dp_-i). — 1. One of the five kinglets of Midian who were slain by the Israelites, under Moses, Nu 3P (BA 'Pmo^), Jos 13-' (B 'Pi^oK, A 'PdKofi.). Like his companions, he is called in Numbers iV? ('king'), but in Joshua k';;j ('prince,' 'chief- tain'). 2. Eponym of a Calebite family, 1 Ch 2" (B'P^/io/i, A'l'iKo/j.)" (LXX follows a different read- ing, B iiaving lexXdi' and A lepKadi', a repetition of the name in the preceding clause, which appears in Heb. as ForA-^dm : see JouKEAM). 3. Theeponyra of a clan of Machir, 1 Ch 7'" (AV and KV Rakera, but tliis is simply the pausal form, DiJ^, of the Heb.