sq. (Ii. 1'.)
Quotidian (secta chori), payment for duties per- formed in choir and personal attendance at divine ser- vice. The prsesentiarius paid it in foreign cathedrals.
Quotidiana Oratio (daily prayer) is the name sometimes applied to the Lord's Prayer on account of its daily use by Christians. See LOBD'S PbAI i R,
Qwanti, the god of war among the Chin, -, . Mag- nificeut processions are held in honor of this deity. — Gardner, Faiths oftht World, >■ \.
R,
Raa, on,' of the principal deities of the Polynesians,
or South-Sea [slanders. The third order id' divinities Consisted of the descendants of l.'aa. These were numerous and varied in their character, some being gods of war and others of medicine.— Gard- n, r, / aiths of tin World, s.v.
Raah. See Gledi .
Ra'amah [some Raa'mah] (Heb. Ramah', rr::"?;
onci Rama', &M33>^ [1 Chron. i, 9], a shuddering, hence
a horse's miiif. as in .lob xxxix. 1'."; Sept. 'Pr/fia, but 'Pajujua | v. r. 'I'rry/io j in Ezek. xxvii, 22; Vulg.Regma and Reetna), the fourth bod of Cush, and the father of Sheba and Dedan (Gen. \. 7 ; l Chron. i. 9), B.C. post 2513. It appears that the descendants <>i i 'u>b colonized
a large part of the interior "I Africa, entering that great continent probably by the strait of Uab-cl-Mandeb. A
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section of the family, however, under their immediate progenitor, Raamah, settled along the eastern shores of the Arabian peninsula. There they founded nations which afterwards became celebrated, taking their names from Raamah's two sons, Sheba and Dedan. See Cusii; Though Sheba and Dedan became nations of greater importance and notoriety, yet the name Raamah did not wholly disappear from ancient history. Ezekiel, in enumerating the distinguished traders in the marts of Tyre, says, "The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold" (xxvii, 22). The eastern provinces of Arabia were famed in all ages for their spices. The position of Sheba (q. v.) is well known, and Raamah must have been near it.
There can be little doubt that in the classical name Regma (Pey/<a of Ptolemy, vi, 7, and 'Pf/yjua of Steph. Byzantium), which is identical with the Sept. equiva- lent for Raamah, we have a memorial of the Old-Test. patriarch and of the country he colonized. The town of Regma was situated on the Arabian shore of the Per- sian Gulf, on the northern side of the long promontory which separates it from the ocean. It is interesting to note that on the southern side of the promontory, a few miles distant, was the town called Dadena, evidently identical with Dedan (q. v.). Around Regma Ptolemy locates an Arab tribe of the Anariti (Geog. vi, 7). Pliny appears to call them Epimaranitse (vi, 26), which, ac- cording to Forster (Geog. of Arabia, i, (54), is just an anagrammatic form of Ramanitce, the descendants of Raamah — an opinion not improbable. Forster traces the migrations of the nation from Regma along the eastern shores of Arabia to the mountains of Yemen, where he finds them in conjunction with the family of Sheba (ibid. p. 60-71). There the mention of the Rha- manitcB tribe by Strabo, in connection with the expedi- tion of Gallus (xvi, p. 781), seems to corroborate the view of Forster. Of Sheba, the other son of Raamah, there has been found a trace in a ruined city so named (Sheba) on the island of Awal (Marasid, s. v.), belong- ing to the province of Arabia called El-Bahreyn, on the shores of the gulf. See Sheba. Be this as it may, however, there can be no doubt that the original settle- ments of the descendants of Raamah were upon the south -western shores of the Persian gulf. Probably, like most of their brethren, while retaining a permanent nucleus, they wandered with their flocks, herds, and merchandise far and wide over Arabia. For the differ- ent views entertained regarding Raamah, see Bochart (Phaleg. iv, 5) and Michaelis (Spicileg. i, 193). — Kitto. The town mentioned by Niebuhr called Reymeh (Descr. (Je I' A rabie) cannot, on etymological grounds, be con- nected with Raamah, as it wants an equivalent for the 5> ; nor can we suppose that it is to be probably traced three days' journey from San'a, the capital of Yemen. — Smith.
Raami'ah (Heb. Raamyah', fP"^"?, thunder of Jehovah; Sept. 'PttX/za [v. r. Naafiin]), one of the chief Israelites who returned from exile with Zerub- babel (Neh. vii, 7), B.C. 445. In the parallel list ( Ezra ii, 2) he is called Reelaiah, and the Greek equivalent of the name in the Sept. of Nehemiah appears to have arisen from a confusion of the two readings, unless, as Burriugton (Geneal. ii, 08) suggests, 'lyteX/.ia is an error of the copyist fur 'VttXaia, the uncial letters ai having been mistaken for m. In 1 Esdr. v, 2 the name ap- pears as Reesaias. — Smith.
Raam'ses (Exod. i, 10). See Rameses.
Rab. See Rabbi; Rabbinism.
Rab, properly Abba Arikha, a noted Jewish teacher, was born at Kaphri, a small place between Sura and Nehardea, in Babylon, about A.D. 170. In early life he went in quest of knowledge into Palestine, and be- came one of the most favorite scholars of Jehudah the Holy (q.v.). On his return to the East he labored,