ARGOB
ARGOB (
Ἀργόβ, LXX:
Râijib, Robinson,
Palestine, vol. iii. App. p. 166), a district in Bashan, E. of the lake of Gennesareth, which was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh (
Dent. 3.4, 13); afterwards placed under the government of one of Solomon's purveyors. (1
Kings, 4.13.) Reland (
Talaest. p. 959) finds traces of this name in the trans-Jordanic town Ragab (
Ῥαγαβά, J. AJ 12.18.5), which Eusebius (
Onomast. s. v. Argob) places 15 M. P. west of Gerasa. Burkhardt (
Travels, p. 279) supposed that he had found the ruins of this city in those of
El-Hossn on the E. side of the lake of Gennesareth, but Mr. Bankes (
Quarterly Review, vol. xxvi. p. 389) conceives this to have been the site of Gamala.
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