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), 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-Hossnon the E. side of the lake of Gennesareth, but Mr. Bankes ( Quarterly Review, vol. 26. p. 389) conceives this to have been the site of Gamala.
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