Recah

Recah (also spelled Rechah) appears once in Scripture in the Calebite genealogy: "And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton. And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Rechah" (1 Chronicles 4:11-12). Like many entries in the Chronicler's genealogical catalogs, Recah is named through the eponymous family whose ancestral seat lay in the southern Judean hill country around Hebron — anchoring the Calebite clan in the family tree that conquered and settled the southern highlands at the conquest. The exact location remains unidentified by archaeology.