watering; distillation; dew
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
RISSAH.A station of the Israelites (Num_33:21 f.).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("a worm".) A station in Israel's march (Num_33:21-22). Roman Rasa, 30 miles from Elath, on the road to Jerusalem, on the plateau of the wilderness near the hill now named Ras-el-Kaa, i.e. "head of the plain," N.W. of Ezion Geber, and W. of El Beyaneh.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
ris?a (רסּה, riṣṣāh, ?dew?): A camp of the Israelites in the wilderness wanderings between Libnah and Kehelathah (Num_33:21 f). See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Rissah
(Heb. Rissah', רַסָּה, a ruin; Sept. ῾Ρεσσά v.r. ῾Ρεσσάν and Δεσσά), the twentieth station of the Hebrews in the desert (Num_33:21-22). It lies, as there given, between Libnah and Kehelathah, and has been considered identical with Rasa in the Peuting. Itiner., thirty-two Roman miles from Ailah (Elah), and 203 miles south of Jerusalem, distinct, however, from the ῾Ρῆσσα of Josephus (Ant. 14, 15, 2). SEE EXODE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.