Racal
Racal
rakal (, rakhal, trader): A place in Judah, enumerated among the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt, to the elders of which he sent a share of his spoils (1Sa 30:29). The Septuagint reading Carmel has been adopted, by many, because of the similarity of the words in Hebrew (, and ) and because there was a Carmel in the neighborhood of Hebron (Jos 15:55; 1Sa 15:12), which figures in the story of David’s adventures when pursued by Saul (1 Sam 25) in a manner that makes it improbable that he would overlook the place in his good fortune (the King James Version Rachal).