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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

re'-shef (resheph, "flame" or "fire-bolt"): Personal name found in Phoenician as a divine name. In the Old Testament the name of a descendant of Ephraim, the eponym of an Ephraimite family or clan (1Ch 7:25).